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littlemanpoet · 09-01-2002, 07:03 PM

Just by way of clarification, it's JRR's genius and not Christopher which pulls this off. Just trace your way through LotR with such sections as 1) "Shadows of the Past", 2) meeting Gildor and the Elves in the Shire, and the ancient feeling they bring, 3) the mystery of Aragron with the blade that is broken, 4) Aragorn's tale of Luthien while they are on Weathertop, 5) the ancient feel of Imladris, 6) the oldness of Moria, 7) the age of Lothlorien, 8) The huge statues of Gondor above the Falls of Rauros... the list goes on and I've probably missed a good dozen or two references to ancientness in the book. Heck, you even got it in The Hobbit with the Lonely Mountain, King under the Mountain, the Arkenstone, the old, old Elvish swords they find in the Troll's treasure-trove, and so on.

09-01-2002, 07:03 PM	#4
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Just by way of clarification, it's JRR's genius and not Christopher which pulls this off. Just trace your way through LotR with such sections as 1) "Shadows of the Past", 2) meeting Gildor and the Elves in the Shire, and the ancient feeling they bring, 3) the mystery of Aragron with the blade that is broken, 4) Aragorn's tale of Luthien while they are on Weathertop, 5) the ancient feel of Imladris, 6) the oldness of Moria, 7) the age of Lothlorien, 8) The huge statues of Gondor above the Falls of Rauros... the list goes on and I've probably missed a good dozen or two references to ancientness in the book. Heck, you even got it in The Hobbit with the Lonely Mountain, King under the Mountain, the Arkenstone, the old, old Elvish swords they find in the Troll's treasure-trove, and so on.