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Originally Posted by mark12_30
Wow. Maybe I've been gone too long from this forum but that is the first explaination of that line that has ever resonated for me.
Wow.
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I'm honoured.
Just expanding on my earlier thoughts: Perhaps in the time of The Sil, Valinor was still too young (or, rather, too youthful?) to really be Faerie. It was ready at the time of LOTR. Just like for us ME is like Faerie, but for many of its inhabitants is wasn't.
Also, since
Roverandom was already mentioned, I think it's worth noting that the whale that showed the Rovers "Valinor" was Uin(en). I know it doesn't make sense, as this is cutting the root -nen- in half, but I couldn't help making the association.