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Tony Puckett · 04-02-2003, 09:28 AM

In my opinion, with regards to Galadriel's mirror, I think that while it has the power to manifest the past, present, future, and anything else inbetween, I think what it showed didn't always have to be on your mind. Perhaps the mirror was something of the sort of the Oracle from The Matrix, in that , if unbidden, it would show you only what you needed to see. Sam was shown Bagshot row to prepare him for the fight in the Shire after an already long and arduous journey. Perhaps Frodo was shown "The Eye" to prepare him for the terror of Sauron's Evil that he experienced every time he put on the ring, and when he entered Mordor. Again, as you can see, I'm a newbie of a sort, and not confident in my Tolkein-lore, but this is my opinion. Please correct me if my youthful exuberence outweighed my ACTUAL knowledge. Thanks!

[ April 02, 2003: Message edited by: Tony Puckett ]

04-02-2003, 09:28 AM	#13
Tony Puckett Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: The shadow of the Tower of Icthalion Posts: 12	In my opinion, with regards to Galadriel's mirror, I think that while it has the power to manifest the past, present, future, and anything else inbetween, I think what it showed didn't always have to be on your mind. Perhaps the mirror was something of the sort of the Oracle from The Matrix, in that , if unbidden, it would show you only what you needed to see. Sam was shown Bagshot row to prepare him for the fight in the Shire after an already long and arduous journey. Perhaps Frodo was shown "The Eye" to prepare him for the terror of Sauron's Evil that he experienced every time he put on the ring, and when he entered Mordor. Again, as you can see, I'm a newbie of a sort, and not confident in my Tolkein-lore, but this is my opinion. Please correct me if my youthful exuberence outweighed my ACTUAL knowledge. Thanks! [ April 02, 2003: Message edited by: Tony Puckett ] __________________ "Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till the lightning falls."