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Old 04-16-2003, 04:41 PM   #15
Dain
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I think Tolkien would have been fully aware of the meaning of the word he was using, so we have to assume he meant the Necromancer to have something to do with the dead. Does he name Sauron "Necromancer" in both The Hobbit and LotR? The White Council didn't know it was Sauron at the time, did they?

Somehow, I always got this necromancy confused with Angmar and the Witch-King. I had these pictures in my mind of undead armies attacking the northern kingdoms. Maybe it had something to do with a combination of the Nazgul's undead status and the Barrow-wights' connexion to that era...I still like the idea, though. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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