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Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim
We have entered murky waters. What can we be sure of in the text? Perhaps we can trust what is given to us at the end of the Silmarillion. There it tells us that there was a great War and it also says that Frodo the Halfling did indeed cast the Ring into the Fire. Who wrote this? By which tales and songs has this final story come to our ears?
Also, note the discrepancy in the final analysis. Perhaps Gollum never existed either?
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Are you saying that C R Tolkien is a more reliable historian of Middle Earth than JRRT? An interesting hypotheses ... many of us hold that the old boy *whispers* was making the WHOLE thing up*..
The jewel was agift of Queen Arwen ... some sort of Elvish crystal therapy I believe...