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Sarumans derision of Radagast

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Sarumans derision of Radagast

Postby Erekose » September 21st, 2006, 7:27 am

Call yourself a dog???? I've seen better hair on a lavatory brush!!!
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Postby Zeuxis » September 21st, 2006, 2:27 pm

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Re: Sarumans derision of Radagast

Postby Leslie » September 21st, 2006, 5:08 pm

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"At myself. My little puny self," said Phillipa.
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Re: Sarumans derision of Radagast

Postby Erekose » September 21st, 2006, 5:30 pm

Call yourself a dog???? I've seen better hair on a lavatory brush!!!
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Re: Sarumans derision of Radagast

Postby cheeky reep » September 21st, 2006, 5:50 pm

Do you mean to say that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me!
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re: Sarumans derision of Radagast

Postby A#minor » September 21st, 2006, 9:29 pm

Maybe Gandalf's ring was like the shoes of the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz. i.e. You can only get it off the person if they are dead.
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re: Sarumans derision of Radagast

Postby Leslie » September 22nd, 2006, 1:21 am

Yes, you're absolutely right, cheeky, it's all in Unfinished Tales. I haven't read that whole book yet. :blush:

A#, I like the notion of the ring not coming off...but then, why didn't Saruman just kill him? I guess we could combine that with cheeky's point about Saruman wanting to enslave Gandalf and his power to increase his own power.

I'd better stop now--heresy is quite addictive!
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Postby Erekose » September 22nd, 2006, 9:07 am

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Postby cheeky reep » September 23rd, 2006, 1:06 am

Do you mean to say that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never told me!
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Postby jo » October 31st, 2006, 5:14 pm

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

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What did Gandalf's ring do?

Postby davev1977 » October 31st, 2006, 6:36 pm

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Postby Stanley Anderson » October 31st, 2006, 7:28 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 » October 31st, 2006, 7:53 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 The Pfifltrigg » December 1st, 2006, 2:36 am

Jo's probably right: it just sat around his hand and didn't do much. Maybe he couldn't even get it to do the dishes! :lol:

How many other stories weave in and out of Middle Earth, leaving us with trailing questions? Where did the Petty-Dwarves (Silmarillion) come from? Where did they go--or were they all killed off? (I think JRRT makes some allusion to the latter scenario...) Where did the Hobbits come from--- all we hear of them, I think, is in the forward to LotR:FotR where we're told they're some distant cousin to the tribes of men. Are they partly dwarvish? And thinking of dwarves again, where did the Arkenstone come from?

One good thing about Tolkien's world is that we're not told everything, wrapped neatly in a bit of silver gift-paper.
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