Visible souls....

[drigel]

lmp: We have been splintered, cut into parts. We are not whole anymore. I'm not talking about "the Fall", either.

I read that and consider the anthropoligical aspect. The characters presented to us in LOTR, Silm, et al are to me an idea that we all derive from in bits and pieces. The farther back we go, the more heroic the time, and the more total the individual is.