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The hrossa, sex and the unfallen state

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The hrossa, sex and the unfallen state

Postby jo » March 21st, 2006, 4:13 pm

"I saw it begin,” said the Lord Digory. “I did not think I would live to see it die"

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Postby Stanley Anderson » March 21st, 2006, 4:57 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby Steve » March 21st, 2006, 5:01 pm

Psalm 139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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Postby Stanley Anderson » March 21st, 2006, 5:06 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby jo » March 21st, 2006, 5:06 pm

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Postby Stanley Anderson » March 21st, 2006, 5:11 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby Stanley Anderson » March 21st, 2006, 5:24 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby jo » March 21st, 2006, 5:26 pm

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Postby Stanley Anderson » March 21st, 2006, 5:29 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby jo » March 21st, 2006, 5:34 pm

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Postby kbrowne » March 22nd, 2006, 9:45 am

jo,

You don’t mean the hrossa literally mate only once, do you? As I remember, Hyoi said that they have sex only for a few years. That’s still not very generous but it is more than once.

I am quite sure that Lewis meant something by this and was not just imagining a different way of life, although he was doing that as well of course. I’m not quite sure what he meant, though. Perhaps it had nothing to do with sex, really. Didn’t Hyoi go on to talk about how the memory of the pleasure is part of the pleasure itself? The idea that no one should hang on to a pleasure and that, if they try, the pleasure itself will be lost is a recurrent theme in Lewis’ writing.

I don’t think Lewis said anything about the sex life of the other species.
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Postby jo » March 22nd, 2006, 11:13 am

As far as I recall he said literally once but I don't have the book to hand .. anyone know?
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Postby kbrowne » March 23rd, 2006, 12:12 pm

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Postby Stanley Anderson » March 23rd, 2006, 1:39 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Postby Stanley Anderson » March 23rd, 2006, 3:42 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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