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Old 09-20-2006, 03:06 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

I'm less curious about what he was doing, what his final purpose was, than why that was his purpose.
Me too - among other things. If we agree he intended to get somewhere we can speculate on where that was.

It strikes me that when most of us come across a magnificent stone building - columns, gargolyes, flying butresses, etc, our first, instinctive, question is 'What's it for, why was it built, why is it there?' Not 'I wonder where the stone came from?' And even if we do ask the latter question it usually follows the former, because we assume there is a reason for things to exist.
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