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- From: klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: The ARKENSTONE
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.114431.1361@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:44:31 GMT
- References: <C14IJB.9GF@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> <1993Jan20.014144.14531@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: klaus@rimfaxe.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 23
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- mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
-
- >In article <C14IJB.9GF@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor) writes:
- [Is the arkenstone a silmaril?]
-
- > 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.
-
- Right. Two more points:
-
- The three silmarils end up in the sky, in the sea and in the fires
- under the earth. A neat, symmetrical distribution. I would think
- that this is their "fate", and that they will stay there while Ea
- endures.
-
- The silmarils in the iron crown gave Morgoth a headache, even though
- they didn't actually touch him. Smaug would not have been able
- to touch a silmaril, even if it had somehow gotten incaged in quartz.
-
- Klaus O K
-