Amanfalath, what Dave M and others are saying is that Elvish nature has a weak point [especially those that remain in ME] and that is a tendency to turn nostalgia into a religion. To warp Eru's creation by stopping time, so they feel comfortable and less transient, and that the Three Rings, though not Rings of War, were still products of an Elvish Fall. Subtle indeed, but decribed by JRRT in his Letters, none the Less. Now Martinez in tghe second article refernced above, boes further [I think] than JRRT connecting some of Tolkien's dots if you will, by showing just how pernicious and decietful the entire matter of the ringmaking and the enticement of the Numenoreans into fighting Sauron wiothout having a clue [till the last Alliance] what the War was about.
So Galadriel [ she and Finrod are probably my two favorite's of JRRT's creations] was not acting with any evil intent, but the entire world she had created in Lothlorien had a fallen aspect.
To add to the paradoxical nature of this 'fall' keep in mind that this is where Olorin goes to be healed, and that Gandalf himself bears one of the Three!
[ June 25, 2003: Message edited by: lindil ]
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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