Beorn

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beorn

I just re-read this part also and in its origins of beorn Gandalf speculates two things, a man from the hills, that is a shape shifter. Or a great bear evolved into a shapeshifter. It also mentions a that he was here before the giants came from the west (valar, and the last war on melkor?) or maybe he was refereing to the stone-giants? I feel his purpose was to kill orcs, and thats it. At somepoint he states that if the orcs were gone his job would be done. I find it hard to believe that he is a man. Because all men are doomed to die, where as say he was part nurmorean(sp?) and he lived say 500. It still doesn't fit the context or the feeling i get of his age. The bear description might be true because bears aren't under any fate, they were just a creation. Their age or powers were set by their creators (yavanna?) Maybe beorn was her way to combat or do her part to save the beuty of middle earth?

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