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- From: dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis)
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- Subject: Re: The paths of the dead
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.233645.10793@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:36:45 GMT
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- In article <D40374W.92Nov23223328@kaira.hut.fi> d40374w@kaira.hut.fi (Tero Valkonen) writes:
- >
- >This is something that has bothered me for ages:
- >
- >In the paths of the dead, Aragorn & co encounter a skeleton that is
- >still clutching the seams of a door he had desperately tried to open.
- >Who was this man and what was behind that door? Has it been explained
- >anywhere?
-
- I think it was specifically meant to be unexplained. I helped to create
- the image on the POTD. The fact that it stayed in your mind might be
- considered proof of this.
-
- >
- >And second, has the fate of the entwives been told about anywhere? I
- >have only read LotR, Silmarillion, The unfinished tales and The hobbit.
- >But I have read LotR over ten times so you could count me as a fan, ;-)
- >
- I'm not aware of there being any additional writings about the ents.
-
- DanZ
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