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Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim
If no-one ever saw a particular flower before it wilted and died, it would have been just as beautiful as it would have been if someone had seen it.
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Would it? Beauty is a subjective quality. It is, as they say, in the eye of the beholder. The flower would not have been beautiful (save in our imagining of it). It would merely have existed.