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Now where did I lay that SoW.
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02-14-2005, 03:14 PM | #802 |
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You're going to sic a female pig on him?
Ooh. That's 'almost' evil. You ladies do realize that elves approaching middle age probably feel like having sex once every 10 years or so....
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And Finrod is not middle aged!
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02-14-2005, 03:51 PM | #804 | ||
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02-14-2005, 04:02 PM | #805 | |
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I'm pretty sure that he was not middle aged. 500 hundred years is not especially long when you have the lifespan of the planet... Now, Galadriel in Lothlórien, 6000 years later, is maybe middle aged, but I doubt that anyone of that generation in the First Age was. And I don't think sex would have been an issue. I'm going to throw the book at you on this one: "Doubtless they would retain for many ages the power of generation, if the will and desire were not satisfied; but with the exercise of the power the desire soon ceases, and the mind turns to other things." Since he's unmarried (though SGH might deny that ), you only need to look at the first part of that, not the second.
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If you figure he was born a few centuries after Finarfin, I'd estimate he was somewhere in the neighborhood of at least 4-5000 when he died... (If not older, Finwe ruled the Noldor for three ages in Valinor, that's reckoned to be about 9000 years before the darkening) Quote:
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"From me, nothing shall remain..." It would seem that the desire had already waned, especially after his sweety stayed home. If he did have "desires" , they were indeed likely few and far between... Though, to be charitable, a 5000 year old elf probably has had time to work out techniques that might make waiting 10 years seem worth it....
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Don't think so with the lycanthropy... After all, he was k- ki- killed... Quote:
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The fact that he displayed no interest in doing so would seem to indicate that he had indeed "lost the desire". Whether from seperation or foreknowledge of doom it matters little.
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Enough talking, time to start glomping again.
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02-14-2005, 06:20 PM | #811 | |
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I believe the quote goes:
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02-14-2005, 08:17 PM | #812 |
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Meh. I was close enough.
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02-14-2005, 09:28 PM | #814 |
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I admited that it was "something like that."
Just to please you, SGH... Here's everything he ever said in the Silmarillion! Thank Eru there's not much dialogue! "An oath I too shall swear, and must be free to fulfil it, and go into darkness. Nor shall anything of my realm endure that a son should inherit." "What ill have I done you, lord? Or what evil deed have the Noldor done in all your realm to grieve you? Neither against your kingship nor against any of your people have they thought evil or done evil." "It is plain that Thingol desires your death; but it seems that this doom goes beyond his purpose, and that the Oath of Fëanor is again at work. For the Silmarils are cursed with an oath of hatred, and he that even names them in desire moves a great power from slumber; and the sons of Fëanor would lay all the Elf-kingdoms in ruin rather than suffer any other than themselves to win or possess a Silmaril, for the Oath drives them. And now Celegorm and Curufin are dwelling in my halls; and though I, Finarfin's son, am King, they have won a strong power in the realm, and lead many of their own people. They have shown friendship to me in every need, but I fear that they will show neither love nor mercy to you, if your quest be told. Yet my own oath holds; and thus we are all ensnared." "Your oaths of faith to me you may break, but I must hold my bond. Yet if there be any on whom the shadow of our curse has not yet fallen, I should find at least a few to follow me, and should not go hence as a beggar that is thrust from the gates." "I go now to my long rest in the timeless halls beyond the seas and the Mountains of Aman. It will be long ere I am seen among the Noldor again; and it may be taht we shall not meet a second time in death or life, for the fates of our kindreds are apart. Farewell!" At least he was wrong about that "long ere I am seen among the Noldor again." The Annals say he was "released soon".
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Which means ... had things been different, things might have been different
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