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- From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
- Subject: Re: Hobbits in the Undying Lands
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.202454.20380@netcom.com>
- Organization: Castle Anthrax
- References: <1k0sthINNpj4@digex.digex.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:24:54 GMT
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- In article <1k0sthINNpj4@digex.digex.com> dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) writes:
- >But this raises a problem for me. At the end of LOTR, Frodo and Bilbo
- >take the last ship to the Undying Lands. Later, the appendices tell us,
- >Sam took a ship west to join them.
- >
- >But if Hobbits are racially derived from men, isn't this a problem?
- >Aren't men strictly forbidden from going to the Undying Lands?
-
- As a general rule, yes. This seems to be an exception. But we have no
- indication that Bilbo and Frodo went to Valinor proper; my reading is
- that they went to Tol Eressea (aka "Elvenhome"), an island near
- Valinor. This may count as a "suburb" of the Undying Lands, and the
- restriction may be less rigorous.
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- Andrew Solovay
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