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- From: Michael.P.Colburn@dartmouth.edu (Michael P. Colburn)
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- Subject: Re: Hobbits in the Undying Lands
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 22:13:19 GMT
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- In article <1k7osaINNb2@gap.caltech.edu>
- damiens@cco.caltech.edu (Damien Sullivan) writes:
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- > >the Hobbit and LotR all took place. By then the Undying Lands were
- > >merely a legend or myth...certainly anyone who believed in it's
- > >existence considered it to heaven. My $0.02....
-
- > What about those who had been to Valinor? Such as Galadriel and other
- > Noldor?
-
- What about them? The Noldor remaining in ME were mostly recluse and
- considered odd by most other 'ordinary' living beings. The point I was
- trying to make is that a good deal of time had passed since the Undying
- Lands were removed and to most common folk, it was merely a myth. Of
- course the Noldor knew better, but who would believe those crazy old
- elves anyway... would you believe some one if they told you they were
- several thousand years old? ;-)
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