View Single Post
Old 10-21-2002, 03:51 PM   #52
Melichus
Haunting Spirit
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Maryland
Posts: 54
Melichus has just left Hobbiton.
Sting

Quote:
No, Galadriel wasn't the eldest, Cirdan was. Galadriel was born in the west, while Cirdan awoke beside Cuivinen (sp?) but abandoned the march to Valinor...
I got the impression that Ingwe, Finwe, and Olwe were the oldest of the elves--or were they just the leaders of the group that Cirdan was a part of? I also stand by my theory that Bombadil was one of the "old creatures dark and strong" that had lasted through the spring of Arda. Of course, his personality must have improved greatly when the times changed a bit...

Also, were the Balrogs Maiar or not? If not, I think they were the oldest non-Maiar/Valar creatures of Arda, since they were created secretly by Morgoth in the depths of Utumno very early on.

Also, how do make the little accents and umlauts over letters?

[ October 21, 2002: Message edited by: Melichus ]
__________________
"The other [theme] had now achieved a unity of its own; but it was loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated; and it had little harmony...and it essayed to drown the other music by the violence of its voice, but it seemed that its most triumphant notes were taken by the other and woven into its own solemn pattern..."
Melichus is offline   Reply With Quote