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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 18:52:12 -0500
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- >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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- As another argument for this, think about what it would mean if the
- ring granted immortality. It would include the power to take away
- the gift of Illuvatar. Defeating death is no easy thing in Middle
- Earth, at least not if you're not an elf.
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- And yes, continually possessing the Ring does also take away the gift
- of Illuvatar. However, you eventually become a wraith, a kind of death
- in life. Therefore, I don't think this argues against my base point.
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