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If the ring Gandalf has is the ring of fire, is that why he says all the stuff he does to the Balrog about beinga servant of the secret fire, or am I just making completely random connections? (or connexions as Tolkein spells it, anyone else ever noticed that?)
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[img]smilies/cool.gif[/img] yeah i noticed too! here's my random connection, nev, quoted from the silmarillion:
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"Ea! Let these things Be! And i will send forth into the Void the Flame Imperishable, and it shall be at the heart of the World, and the World shall Be, and those of you that will may go down into it." --Eru Illuvator (the Creator), speaking to the Valar, the Powers of the World, before creation
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i surmise gandalf was speaking of the "flame imperishable" as the secret fire, in reference to his being ultimately a servant of eru illuvatar, which in all respects he is.
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