What was the Arkenstone? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Gwaihir the Windlord · 07-06-2003, 10:02 PM

Yes, I was always quite proud of that piece of writing [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]. Well-elaborated, my friend. It is indeed true that many fascinating possibilites exist, only hemmed in by the seeming improbability of the thing. The Arkenstone not only did play an important part in the War of the Ring -- in a slightly obscure way, but an important one indeed when you think about it -- but it also saved the Dwarves from ruin. This is a true possibility for evidence that it was a Silmaril.
The light of Earendil, of course, was important in the salvation of Middle-Earth in the First Age, as well as in the War of the Ring.

Someone might like to write a counter-argument, to be really fair, though =]. That would be a useful thing to do... I might do it myself actually, sometime in the future.

[ July 07, 2003: Message edited by: Gwaihir the Windlord ]

07-06-2003, 10:02 PM	#25
Gwaihir the Windlord Essence of Darkness Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Evermore Posts: 1,420	Yes, I was always quite proud of that piece of writing [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]. Well-elaborated, my friend. It is indeed true that many fascinating possibilites exist, only hemmed in by the seeming improbability of the thing. The Arkenstone not only did play an important part in the War of the Ring -- in a slightly obscure way, but an important one indeed when you think about it -- but it also saved the Dwarves from ruin. This is a true possibility for evidence that it was a Silmaril. The light of Earendil, of course, was important in the salvation of Middle-Earth in the First Age, as well as in the War of the Ring. Someone might like to write a counter-argument, to be really fair, though =]. That would be a useful thing to do... I might do it myself actually, sometime in the future. [ July 07, 2003: Message edited by: Gwaihir the Windlord ]