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Galadriel and Feanor
"From her earliest years she had a marvellous gift of insight into the minds ofothers, but judged them mercy and understanding, and she withheld her goodwill from none saveFeanor. In him she perceived a darkness that she hated and feared , though she did not perceive that the shadow of the same evil had fallen upon the minds of all the Noldor, and upon her own."
from UT p.230 [hb]
Mass spiritual delusion among the 'wise' even in the land of the angels.
Looking at that puts our modern situation in even scarier terms.
Lindil is often found on posting on the New Silmarillion Canon Forum at the Barrowdowns discussion board. 'The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night, and awaken early before dawn- exchanging lore and wisdom such as they possessed , so that they should not fall back into the mean and low estate of those , who never knew or more sadly still, had indeed rebelled against the Light.' </p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000076>lindil</A> at: 1/23/01 4:23:15 am
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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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