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Old 12-24-2003, 08:58 AM   #41
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Indeed. The Mouth is great! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

I don't think there was any Osanwe though between 'he' and Aragorn. Aragorn simply daunted him with the ferocity/nobility/strenght/terror of his gaze.
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Old 12-24-2003, 04:27 PM   #42
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Aragorn didn't have to "use" Osanwë to intimidate the Mouth, just as any strong person doesn't have to use supernatural skills to intimidate a weaker person. The Mouth of Sauron was perceptive, he had to be to scale the hierarchial ladder like that. At first glance, and shielded by his arrogance and close-mindedness, Aragorn just seemed like another petty king leading a group of "mindless rabble" with a "piece of elvish glass." But with a closer look, the Mouth realized that this was no ordinary person he was messing with.

There is a big, physical difference between a strong, steady person and a weak, vacillating person. You can tell straight off the bat, who is strong and who is weak. Even an Orc could have realized that Aragorn wasn't a man to be trifled with.
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Old 12-26-2003, 11:19 AM   #43
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I think the fact that the Mouth feels he was 'assaulted', indicates there may well have been
osanwe being used by Aragorn, but it is possible that it was in a sort of neutral way, that the Mouth took as an Attack.

It could be Aragorn was probing him to learn the true fate of the Hobbits, noticing the inconsistency of the garments/weapons, some Sam's some Frodo's.
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Old 12-29-2003, 04:30 AM   #44
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I've ordered the relevant issue, & thanks, Lindil, for sparking my interest, but as I'm still waiting for it I don't really want to comment too deeply.

One thing that has struck me is a (vague) similarity between Osanwe & Tolkien's fellow inkling, Charles Williams', concept of co-inherence. I can't comment on how similar the two are till I've read the essay, but I'd appreciate the comments of anyone who has read it.

A good account of co-inherence is at: http://www.polarissite.net/page27.html

(short quote from the essay:
"Simply stated, co-inherence is the concept that all human beings are spiritually interconnected and totally dependent on each other. "No man is an island" and so every thought and every action affects other people. In another terminology, humanity shares a "vast spiritual reservoir".).

I'm not saying that they are exactly alike, or that Tolkien 'lifted' the idea from Williams, but this idea of a unity of mind/spirit between individuals is a possible indication that despite Tolkien's assertions, the two men were not all that far apart in their worldview.
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Old 08-31-2004, 06:27 AM   #45
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Old 09-23-2010, 02:00 AM   #48
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The Voice of Saruman

This is interesting material. I wonder that no one has mentioned Saruman's ability to enslave the minds of others, through speech, over even great distances. It is by far the most obvious and explicit example of long-term long-distance communication sans palantiri. What makes this doubly interesting is that he does seem to communicate to these poor thralls through words, through language, through the power of his voice.

I will have to read those chapters over, again, with this in mind.
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This is interesting material. I wonder that no one has mentioned Saruman's ability to enslave the minds of others, through speech, over even great distances. It is by far the most obvious and explicit example of long-term long-distance communication sans palantiri. What makes this doubly interesting is that he does seem to communicate to these poor thralls through words, through language, through the power of his voice.

I will have to read those chapters over, again, with this in mind.
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I don't think Saruman's powers of persuasion with his voice were an example of Osanwe. The latter was a mental means of thought transference, whereas one apparently needed to be in Saruman's presence and listening to his speech to be affected. What instance was there of that power being exerted over long distances?
That appears to be merely part of Saruman's native talents as a Maia, as were Gandalf's gifts with fire and lights.
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Old 10-01-2010, 03:54 AM   #50
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Saruman's voice was not hypnotic but persuasive. Those who listened to him were not in danger of falling into a trance, but of agreeing with his arguments, while fully awake. It was always open to one to reject, by free will and reason, both his voice while speaking and its after-impressions. Saruman corrupted the reasoning powers.
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