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Old 11-22-2002, 08:11 AM   #12
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Sharkű and Undé have it, I think. It is less a longing for the sea itself and more a yearning for release, for escape. Harping on the immortality as curse theme, we see that the Elves tire of the perpetual changes to Arda, so evident to an immortal, and thus are more humanised than previously, albeit in a different manner to that which you might have expected.

It may be something of the nature of the tranquility that descends upon the very elderly of our people, when they have made their peace with death, and no longer fear it. It is simply expressed in a different manner.
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