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- From: slogan@mta.ca (Relic)
- Subject: Re: Hobbits in the Undying Lands
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.224634.25093@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:46:34 GMT
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- In article <1k0sthINNpj4@digex.digex.com> dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiew
- icz) 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?
-
- I can't back this up at the moment but as far as I was and have been
- concerned they, being Frodo and Sam were allowed to sail to the Undying
- lands as they had been bearers of the ring. Flame away if you want, but I
- was farely cerain that was the reason for. If I am totaly off feal free
- to e-mail me or post it. I like to know when I wrong.
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