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Old 08-16-2005, 01:15 PM   #8
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Yet the Elves love trees most - after the stars - so do they really think of them as a ‘barrier’, as something in the way, an ‘obstacle’ to their vision of the stars?
It's an interesting theory, but the Two Trees were first made by the Valar, and Yavanna herself had the trees in her care. While trees do represent something more earthly than the stars, they both have their sources in the Valar, and ultimately in Iluvatar. And the trees, earth-rooted as they are, grow upwards, reaching for the stars.

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The Maedhros/Idril story springs to mind
I do believe you mean Maeglin.
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