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- From: dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: Hobbits in the Undying Lands
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 18:43:57 -0500
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- In article <1993Jan26.185313.7719@netcom.com> solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
- >
- >As I read it, if you have the Ring, it sort of mummifies you-- you
- >don't age, and become all stretched out. These effect persist, to an
- >extent, even after you lose the Ring (in LOTR, Gollum had been without
- >the ring for 80 years, but didn't seem aged). But when the Ring was
- >destroyed, all of this was undone.
-
- Gollum would have lived somewhere around 90-100 years without the ring.
- I think he could have been a biological 100 year old hobbit in LOTR. So
- I'm not sure that this example helps.
-
- As another example, Bilbo in the Many Meetings chapter (after Frodo
- first reaches Rivendell) strikes me as a 90-100 year old hobbit, which
- is roughly the number of years that he has lived without the ring.
-
- In summary, I don't think that having owned the ring for a short period
- confers immortality on you. I think that ownership of the ring makes
- the years in which you own it not count against your age.
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