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Originally Posted by the guy who be short
Why exactly did they need cothes anyway? I mean, there's enough nudity in LotR, so I don't see why the ringwraiths should be excluded from the fun...
Speaking of which, why did the ghosts have clothes? Can cloth be ghosted?
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tgwbs, cloaks are de rigueur for swishy villains. No self-respecting baddie in a historical costume drama would be found without one.Where would Darth Vader have been without his? Just another deep throat. And ghosts are unhappy souls who are doomed to walk this earth (or, apparently, float in green goo). They cannot shake off completely this mortal coil. And that includes the duds they died in supposedly. Dickens' Christmas ghosts were all clothed but come to think of it Shakespeare didn't actually represent his ghosts on stage.
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Originally Posted by SpM
But if we are going to come over all realistic about it, how on earth (and in Middle-earth) can ghosts exist at all?
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Perhaps this is part of the "unconsciously so in the revision." Tolkien believed in the
Holy Ghost , after all. Or would this argument just be more "baggage" from the primary world?
*exit, stage left, followed by angry mob*