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Well, that makes a lot of sense, in terms of explaining why Tolkien would want to represent evil things as being afraid of water. I would have thought that both theories (water=soul, Ulmo=dude) are compatible with one another
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08-25-2004, 01:54 PM | #42 |
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Yeah it says that Ulmo never forsook Men or Elves even if the Valar were angry wuth them.
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In relation to water...and forgive me for this...but I recall in the Silmarillion, a tower (Barad Nimrais), built by Finrod Felagund on the coast, to guard from a sea attack by Morgoth...but it was unecessary, "for at no time ever did Morgoth essay to build ships or to make war by sea. Water all his servants shunned, and to the sea none would willingly go nigh, save in dire need"
Consequently, the tower was later taken in a land attack. So it seems all evil creatures fear water... Perhaps it has to do with an inherent fear in Sauron (and Morgoth), of things he could not master. He did not fear Men or Saruman for example, because they were easily bent to his will. The elves were not controllable and he sought always to wipe them out. Similarly, he hated the dwarves because, even with the 7 rings he was unable to control them. Because of Ulmo's power, and Osse's unpredictability, no one set against the valar could hope to control the sea. And in any case, in any of us, anything we can't control, is to be feared. Quote:
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Not all evil creatures fear water because the Watcher of the Water lives in water.
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Ahhh...very good point...
but that water in which it resided was stagnant, under a mountain and in a mountain pool, not connected to the power of the seas/rivers...
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Do we know that for sure?
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Yeah didn't it run in to the Silverlode.
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Yes... but... the roots ran very deep, and namless things lived there, etc, etc. How do we know that further down, it didn't run into another watershed?
wait, wait... read your sentence wrong. Heh.
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I don't think we do.
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I've been wanting to post much on this but haven't been able. Without checking back, here are a couple things:
1. Yes - 'longshanks' means 'long legs'... it was actually applied to a King of England... I think an Edward was King Edward 'Longshanks'. Anyway - whichever one it was - it was the guy who was the villain in the movie 'Braveheart'... I think he was about 6'-7" or so. 2. Just noticed this time through that when the three wraiths approach and Frodo puts on the Ring, that his sword seems to flame red and two of the three wraiths stop - but the other (who we find to be their leader - the Witch-King) continues to advance. Question: Was that how a special blade of the Dunedain would appear in the wraiths' phantom world? And was that enough to frighten the two lesser wraiths? That's what Frodo carried at the time - a blade recovered from the Barrow on the Downs - like the one Merry later used to... oh, don't want to give the ending away! More later...
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Olmer - are you postulating that they hoped either Elrond or Gandalf or some other worthy at Rivendell would take up the Ring and become their master? If so - they sure DID pursue Frodo to a great extent... even chasing him to the Fords of Bruinen... and crossing most of the Bruinen to take him back to Mordor.
Besides... (diverting from LOTR books only) - doesn't JRRT tell us somewhere that Sauron held the Nine Rings... whereby he retained control over these servants? I don't know if he would have lost that control even if someone else claimed the One... unless they were given time to master it, but that may have been destructive to the Nazgul itself... Elrond or someone having mastered the One, while Sauron tried to control them through the Nine.
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I don't think that they did try to take the Ring, I think that they planned for Frodo to be corrupted by the Morgul wound quicker so he would take the Ring to Sauron and endure terrible torture.
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Any-hoo, something else from the end of this section:
When Frodo is making that last dash for the Ford, it's written that it appears to him as though the riders had shed their cloaks and hoods - and he saw them dressed in white and gray, and saw their helms and swords. Really - it's like he saw them as he did when he put on the Ring at Weathertop. Now - I take it that this is because Frodo was turning into a wraith. I doubt the others saw the riders that way... or that Frodo would have seen them that way if he didn't have his wound. Their proximity may have either hastened the process, or enhanced his awareness of that spirit realm. I think I only noticed in this reading that when Frodo just slipped past that last rider (thanks to Asfaloth!) he got breathed at... he felt what was probably a shot of the Black Breath!
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