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Forum: The Books
01-13-2016, 07:19 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 34,800
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Zigūr
Given the corruption of the Orcish hröa I would...
Given the corruption of the Orcish hröa I would say that it's possible they lost the Elvish immunity to disease in the same way that they lost their longevity and the like, "the fėa dragging down the... |
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Forum: The Books
01-09-2016, 06:04 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 34,800
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Zigūr
Yes, could some more be done to link this back to...
Yes, could some more be done to link this back to Professor Tolkien's work and the Great Plague of the Third Age? Given that much of Professor Tolkien's writing harks back to an early medieval and... |
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Forum: The Books
01-05-2016, 07:46 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 34,800
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Zigūr
Yes definitely an interesting way of looking at...
Yes definitely an interesting way of looking at it. While Morgoth is the most overtly "Satanic" character, in Letter 175 Professor Tolkien refers to Sauron (indirectly) as "the Devil" and it seems... |
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Forum: The Books
01-05-2016, 09:52 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 34,800
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Zigūr
Yes it isn't that convincing unless he just kept...
Yes it isn't that convincing unless he just kept it away from his own people somehow (but that would be a very steady weather pattern). I like your suggestions about the pathetic fallacy as well as... |
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Forum: The Books
01-04-2016, 09:47 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 34,800
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Zigūr
I should have specified that I didn't actually...
I should have specified that I didn't actually mean radiation, just a poison which might spread through the atmosphere in a comparable way. Concerning Sauron not using a plague again later, it... |
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Forum: The Books
01-04-2016, 05:27 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 34,800
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Zigūr
The image of the "dark winds out of the East" has...
The image of the "dark winds out of the East" has interested me for some time. This suggests, unless it is meant to convey a primitive understanding of disease, that it was spread atmospherically... |
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