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Old 09-21-2000, 09:34 PM   #14
Saulotus
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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Magic in Middle-earth

Better question: What about the Druedain?

The statement is in LETTERS #155.
However there is a footnote attached to the text done by Tolkien where he questions his own statement's veracity. 'But the Numenoreans used &quot;spells&quot; in making swords?'
Also of note is that this 'Letter' is actually a portion of a draft for Letter 154 where this portion of the letter was excised from the sent version.

I think if it were absent from man's 'nature', then several of his own plot devices fail, and why it may have been excised.



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