Ordianry folks take on Elves

[Gandalf_theGrey]

Think of our own world, where any suggestion of the supernatural or otherworldly experiences are a matter of speculation, denial, and endless debate. You have to admit that Hobbits have a much different world view then we people of the Seventh Age.

In 1989, I dreamed of a car fire ... well, I wasn't allowed to see the actual fire itself, but I saw the road on which I was travelling, and I saw the new white car which I would in fact end up buying two or three weeks after the car fire ... in between where the fire should have been in the dream, was greyness. Within 24 hours of having this dream, my fuel line broke, the car caught fire while I was driving it, and two strangers saved my life. An hour before the dream came true, I told a witness of my dream, for the dream troubled me.

I've dreamed of other fires also that have come true ... in one case, I even dreamed of the identity of the Halloween teenage arsonist prankster who set a round fire in my parents' lawn ... days later, the culprit I'd identified in my dream admitted it openly on the bus coming home from high school, though I hadn't accused him, nor even spoke one word of fire to him.

I was struck by lightning over the telephone several years ago. Before that, I was a passenger in a car struck by lightning on the highway. This summer, my laptop computer was struck by lightning the moment I pressed the ENTER key to send a print job.

Recently, a couple of Sundays ago, I was standing on the shores of Lake Erie in search of a rare Eider which the news announcers said was spotted in the area. A burst of lightning and thunder cracked above, and I strongly felt "tornado" and began muttering about tornados, unnerving the friends I was with, because they know to take me seriously. Meanwhile, the next day I come to find out that precisely while I was muttering about tornados ... they were in fact touching down just then on the Ohio/Indiana border.

Fire, lightning, dreams that come true ... this is not a fairy tale to me, it's reality, and the name Olórin is one that to my mind suits the events I go through.

Thus my own worldview perhaps more closely matches that of the Third Age than the Seventh, and the perspective therefore of the majority of Seventh Agers eludes me moreso than most.

Gandalf the Grey

[ November 25, 2002: Message edited by: Gandalf_theGrey ]