I feel compeled to write, if only to add my sig [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] i wonder more about what tolkien's underlying messge was especially in the Aldarion and Erendis story. To me, it doesn't seem to have any real signifigance in the history and shaping of M-E, so it was probably added to relay some sort of message. Was it warning us to beware that our loves may not be as perfect as we seem and we must constantly fight some other yearning of ours? or should we look past that and try to fix about ourselves what they could not?
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Merendis Mthe Mmariner's Mwife
Riding one day in the forest of the Westlands he saw a woman, whose dark hair flowed in the wind, and about her was a green cloak...and he knew her for Erendis...then suddenly he knew in himself the love that he bore her, and he felt the emptiness of his days.
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