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- From: damiens@cco.caltech.edu (Damien Sullivan)
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- Subject: Re: The ARKENSTONE
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 06:34:43 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In article <1993Jan20.014144.14531@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >
- > I think that if Thranduil, who had spent the First Age in
- >Doriath, had seen a Silmaril in the hands of a halfling of
- >Middle-Earth, he would have considered it worthy of comment over and
- >above the value of the Arkenstone itself. Since he didn't, I can't
- >really give the theory much weight.
- A good point, although this is the _Hobbit_ we're talking
- about here. Along with Thranduil Gandalf would recognize a Silmaril
- (if he couldn't just _tell_ he would surely have seen them in Valinor
- at some point..)
-
- After all, there are more
- >precious stones in the earth than the one remaining Silmaril, and the
- Come again?!!? This is the SILMARIL! Containing the last light
- of the Two Trees in pure form (leave the Sun and Moon out of this), and
- which is of a type with the Morning/Evening/Messenger/whatever star,
- Earendil. (I'm not saying that the Arkenstone==the Silmaril, just
- poiniting out that there WOULDN'T be any stone more valuable.)
-
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- -- Phoenix -- Damien R. Sullivan [X-) Kiljoy]
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