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Old 08-15-2003, 08:06 PM   #7
Birdland
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About the flowers that grow in ME:
Some of them are obviously found only there (in that category fall niphredil, mallorn, elanor, evermind, lissuin, mallos...
As the resident expert, Treebeard, might say: "Let's not be hasty" concerning 7th Age equivalents to the above flowers.

The earth has such a vast variety of flora that it is possible that the Good Professor may have had a particular flowr, or type of flower, in mind when he described some of the Elven blooms. Your topic has stirred my curiosity. I'll have to do some research.

Here's another connection The name of Eärendil's ship was Vingilot, this translates as "foam flower", a plant I have in my own garden, and which is also popular in English gardens.
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