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Watch out, I live quite near a very very very very large army base. I have relations.
*Strolls calmly over to air force jet* Maybe we should . . . not kill anyone. What do you think? First on the page!
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04-06-2007, 02:16 PM | #23 |
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Please enter your guesses in the riddle forum. Although it is kinda my fault... But no, the answer is not the Rings. The answer includes but one item. See you at the Riddle forum.
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04-06-2007, 02:37 PM | #24 |
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Still haven't figured out the different forums yet, which one if the riddle forum?
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04-11-2007, 01:39 PM | #28 |
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I always figured it referred to the Witch-King alone and did not apply to the other Nazgul
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04-16-2007, 11:31 PM | #30 | |
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07-16-2007, 07:50 AM | #31 |
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... Mind you... Eowyn wasn't exactly a man now was she? The prophecy mentioned nothing about women.... hmmmm so that would mean that if your really wanted to defeat the Witch King easily you could just tell a bunch of pregnant women that he called them fat... simple really.
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07-16-2007, 12:47 PM | #32 |
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There is nothing in Tolkien about the Nazgul being invulnerable to attacks from men. There is merely the prophecy by Glorfindal, a High Elf, about the the Witchking.
"Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man will he fall" This is just a prophecy of what will happen to one particular being, not a statement of what could happen to being like him.
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Perhaps not invulnerable, but I think they could not be entirely destroyed (sorry have I said this before? I haven´t been able to get here for weeks, it´s so annoying ) since they were bound to the One... after all, the foundations of Barad-Dur would not crumble before the One was destroyed.
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08-07-2007, 08:22 PM | #34 |
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No man may hinder me either. My wife, by contrast, can put a stop to me.
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08-08-2007, 03:57 PM | #35 |
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10-02-2007, 03:11 PM | #37 |
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Ellendil mortaly wounded Sauron's body, and was crushed or suffacated when Suaron fell on him. Isildur cut off Sauron's finger with the ring on it. Isildur may or may not have finished off Sauron's body.
Edit: I seem to remember the above from somewhere in HoME, but it is porely indexed, and I can not find it nor be sure of its authenticity.
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Gaius Mucius Scaevola Older, richer, and wiser than you "Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor, but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Iluvatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, ... And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me," Last edited by Lefty Scaevola : 10-02-2007 at 04:00 PM. |
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I remember nothing from HOME on the matter, but I guess Isildur was very lucky to catch Sauron at a right moment - after he was "brought down" = neutralized, severely wounded, but before he "died", that is before his fea actually fled his hroa. Because, as we know from the Letters, bodiless Sauron's fea was perfectly capable to carry the Ring with it while fleeing.
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Yep, JRRT clearly states in a letter that bodiless Valar and Maiar can still interact physically with the world (and inddeed that was the manner of much of their world building the world) and that that is how Sauron carried the ring away from Numenor. More technically, that the nature of the Ainurs' Fea was different from the Children of Illuvatar, and that the it was more fully a part of the physical world (and indeed that being bodiless was the natural state of the Ainur) than the Fea of Men or Elves.
Edit for reference: Letter # 211
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Gaius Mucius Scaevola Older, richer, and wiser than you "Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor, but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Iluvatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, ... And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me," Last edited by Lefty Scaevola : 10-02-2007 at 06:17 PM. |
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