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Old 12-03-2002, 07:16 PM   #1
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Oh yeah, Kiara, you made me think of another way Ireland and Scotland are like the Barrow Downs. If I remember the history of the downs, I think that there were battles there or just barrow-wights, who died in battles. Anyways, that really reminds me of the atlles between Ireland/Scotland and England. Maybe tolkien wanted the wights to be like the dead Irish and Scottish soldiers who died fighting the English. Since Tolkien was English, he might take the side of the English and think that the Irish/Scottish were evil, so he made them into wights, who were evil and did come out of Angmar. Or maybe the wights were supposed to be like the English who died fighting the Irish/Scottish. Tolkien might have recognized that what the English did was wrong and he wanted to portray them as evil wights. Tolkien might have taken the side of the Irish/Scottish on this. Or maybe Tolkien did not want it to represent it but it just influenced his story of middle earth even though he might not have known it. Maybe I'm wrong about the whole thing. Just a thought.

It sucks when someone (Tolkien) creates a great work (Middle-earth) and dies before admirers like us have a chance to find out from him whether our thoughts are true or not. Oh well, there's nothing we can do about it. R.I.P.
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