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I find this interesting, though I can't seem to understand it. Care to explain, Lyta?
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Sure, if I can! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] It is actually an observation made by others than me; it has to do with Galadriel's use of Nenya to preserve Lothlorien. Time does not work there as it does outside the realm, and things do not decay. It is an inherent power of Nenya, but it is also unnatural, as evidenced by the fear shown by those who speak of the Lady of the Wood outside her realm. It is this "otherness" and odd preserved state that makes Lothlorien creepy in itself, although it is beautiful in an Elven and a Noldorin "creative" sense. It is beauty created of suspension of natural cycles of life, much as the Elves themselves exist outside the cycles of renewal in Middle Earth. They are fading, becoming irrelevant and alien, and this "embalmed" realm of Lothlorien is symptomatic of that. I think it is significant also that the Three Rings and their power are tied to the One, for they are the very thing that those who would have tried to use the One Ring would have argued for: a good use for an evil thing. Not that the Three Rings were evil; but that they were tied to it. The evil of Sauron was unnatural, but by the opposite but similar measure, so was the embalmed realm of Lothlorien and the Elves themselves, after the end of the Third Age.
Boy, I hope I made sense! Because I don't think I can get any more mileage out of my brain tonight! It
is interesting to contemplate, though, isn't it, Neferchoirwen?
Cheers,
Lyta