In reading LOTR I recently noticed a few things that could be connected to this discusion. In "The Ring Goes South" just before the rest of the company is chosen Elrond says "Then I cannot help you much, not even with counsil," said Elrond "I can forsee very little of your road; and how your task is to be acheived I do not know. The shadow has crept now to the feet of the mountains, and draws nigh even to the borders of the Greyflood; and under the shadow all is dark to me." Another place is in "The Mirror of Galadriel" after Frodo looks in the mirror when he and Galadriel are Talking she says "I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I percieve the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought. But still the door is closed!" and then Frodo sees Nenya etc., and Galadriel goes on to say "He suspects, but he does not know - not yet. Do you not see now wherefor your coming is to us as the footsteps of Doom? For if you fail, then we are laid bare to the Enemy. Yet if you succeed, then our power is diminished, and Lothlorien will fade, and the tides of Time will sweep it away. We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and be forgotten." I don't know if that really has any thing to do with "Mind-speach" but I thought it might
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