05-22-2002, 11:47 PM | #1 |
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elendil, gil-galad,
elendil, gil-galad, if they had survived the battle
Would elendil have had the strength to destroy the ring? I believe gil galad would have the power to do so but I don't know enough about elendil
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05-23-2002, 11:26 AM | #2 |
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i think he would have. he had alot more wisdom than isildur and i believe a stronger will. he wouldnt have taken such a weapon of sauron's for his use or even as an heirloom, he woulda known evil would become of it. And neways gil-galad cant even compare to Elendil!
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05-24-2002, 08:10 AM | #4 |
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I don't think so. I remember a Letter of JRR Tolkien were I think he said something like nobody could have resisted the ring in the place of its making.
I think if some one would have had the strength it would have destroyed him. That means he would have jumped in with the ring. In that way he would have the ring for him self but also safe the world. Tolkien envisaged in one of his letters a scene with Gollum doing exactly this for his friendship with Frodo after he was not rebuke by Sam before Shelobs lair. Regrads Findegil |
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Good quesiton afro-elf! I don't know, I agree that if any man could have done it, Earendil or Elendil would be the chaps. But even they were men, and thusly were still short-sighted, relatively speaking. The lure of the ring's power would have been too much for even them, I fear.
I think a high-elf as Gil-Galad, who had seen Sauron's cunning from the beginning, and also having the foresight and expeirence that one has as a several thousand-year Noldorin warrior, would perchance, allow him to cast the ring into the fire, though with the greatest of pains. I don't know (have I said that before? ), Galadriel withstood the temptation to use it, but throwing it into the fire is whole other thing. - Lelond
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I think that they could have destroy the ring if they were servive. Gil-Galad was destroy the ring if he could because he wasn't near it long time as Frodo was when he didn't want to destroy it. I think that Elendil could do it from the same reason.
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i agree with radagast tho. frodo had the ring for many years. if gil-galad or elendil would have tried to destroy it a.s.a.p. i think they could have done it.
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What is this quote? From where did you take it?
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they only dealt with him as the dark lord NEVER did they encounter him in his fair guise so to say they the saw through his cunning is a misnomer NO elven nation succame to him which while he was open the dark lord
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05-29-2002, 12:33 AM | #13 |
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aye i understand. but the faithful knew what was going on was evil and refused to take part. dude, i have to have something to say to backup the numenoreans
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they were the greatest mortal civilization EVER to exist in ME and long after the elves grew weary they continued to fight against sauron even after they themselves had grown weak.
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ok, that about sums it up..
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But not me! Because Gil-galad wasn't just a mere elf. He was a Noldo and the son of one of the Exiles who had seen the light of Aman. He had known Sauron since the days, when he was just a mere Maia and a servant of the Dark Lord Morgoth. Gil-galed knew what he was capable of. He was a close relative of Finrod, who had fought against Sauron in a duel. Elendil didn't know, what the One Ring was, did he? So he would have walked in the trap. He may be one of the Numenoreans, but he wasn't of the line of Earendil and Elros Tar-Minyatur, was he? He may have been a great man and wiser than his son, but he was far too young in the years of Ea to understand completely what he was up against. And that would have been his downfall, in my humble opinion
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elendil was of the line of elros, just not the ruling house. Tar-Elendil had three children. Silmarien,Irimon(Meneldur), and Isilme. Meneldur was the only son and took the kingship after his father. From Silmarien came the lords of Andunie. So yes they were from the line of Elros.
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I didn't know that and I will keep my mouth shut now
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In fact it was in a way a more legitimate line than was that of Tar-PalantÃ*r or Tar-MÃ*riel (or Ar-Pharazon), because Silmarien (the fore-mother of the lords of Andúnië) was Tar-Elendil's eldest child. The only reason she didn't become the Ruler of Númenor was because she was a woman (a law that was later changed).
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