Tell me something.
Was the curse inflicted before or after Isildur took The One Ring?
No one seems to have noticed that the power of the Ring might be involved...
If it was not, then I suggest it has to do with a guise (sic?) This is an ancient legend passed down thru the Celts. If one was honorable, and saw the need to order another to do his bidding for a blood payment, the guise was invoked. This held the person to his word. It was belief and magic, intertwined.
Women oft used it to hold a man to his word, especially when she had born his children or was inflicted with some torture at the hands of that man.
One might look at the prophesy of Glorfindel as a guise. When he "predicted" that the Captain of The Nazgul would be destroyed by "no man", how did he know? Was this an invocation of a guise? Did Isildur understand the implications of his guise?
[ September 08, 2002: Message edited by: Tirned Tinnu ]
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