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Originally Posted by Iarwain
dare I say it?
STOP!
PLEASE!
Has no one here a concept of what constitutes a discussion? We are NOT here to wander aimlessly in search of nothing. As the introductory post on this thread stated, this is meant to be a sort of Theology of Middle-Earth. Forgive me for attempting some level of direction , but I believe the last 20+ posts have been completely (or nearly so) irrelavent to our discussion. I hoped to stand by and wait for the storm to pass, but it seems that if I do, any hope of intelligent inquiry will end up like the little hobbits on the face of Caradhras. What we need is direction. Commonly, I belive that it is useful for the initiator of a discussion to direct its flow to a degree, and I see that I have neglected my duties in that respect.
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Conversations, be they normal, spoken ones, or be they thought-out, typewritten online ones evolve. Some stay on the topic they were started for (many telephone conversations of a shorter nature do). Some do not, but move quickly to other matters- including those that are the "hot topics" of the current time.
Of course, having attempted to establish law and order here, I predict that you will will see a flowering of a third topic: "what is on topic", which is likely even farther away from what you think THE topic is.
Look at it as a sign of the "interconnectedness" of Middle-earth. All subjects are related. And, personally speaking, as long as the broad topic is Tolkien and Middle-earth, I am not personally averse to an amount of wandering.
Keeps things interesting.