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| Mar 17, 2022 at 4:03 | history | edited | DavidW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 20, 2015 at 0:28 | comment | added | Drunken Code Monkey | Galadriel's speech when offered the One freely by Frodo in Lothlorien seems to imply that she at least knows she would have some control over it: “And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!” Galadriel is one of the oldest and most powerful elve, she herself lived in Aman. | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 8:50 | comment | added | Sheph | Bearing in mind, that while Gandalf was a Maia, he was instructed by Manwe (The lead Valar) to go to Middle Earth as one of the five wizards. They were to take the forms of Men, and their powers were severely limited. Manwe could have stopped Sauron at any time he wanted, but he chose to let Men resolve the issue themselves. The wizards were there to guide Men in the right direction. When Gandalf dies, he is sent back by Manwe with increased power (To balance the loss of Saruman) But Gandalf in his true form might have been able to stop Sauron even. We can only speculate at that too! | |
| Mar 11, 2012 at 8:46 | comment | added | Sheph | Hello, Slytherincess! Thanks for the welcoming words. J.R.R.T stated that he did not mean for his writing to be allegory. (I imagine he would not like the idea of his writing being compared to the Chronicles of Narnia) The relations I was making were putting them in the only context I can relate them too. The Ainur sang songs to create the world, and that has nothing to do with Christianity at all. You can read all about this in The Silmarillion. For question 2: I can only speculate that the Ainur (The Valar and the Maia) would not be corrupted in their true forms. | |
| Mar 10, 2012 at 20:42 | comment | added | Slytherincess | Interesting answer! Is LoTR itself a Christian allegory series, or were you just making those comparisons as examples? Also, you say that Tom Bombadil suggested that not all beings were drawn in by the One Ring's corruption -- which beings would this be? Welcome to scifi.stackexchange, btw :) | |
| Mar 9, 2012 at 11:34 | history | answered | Sheph | CC BY-SA 3.0 |