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Originally Posted by Bergil
That wasn't a curse, it was an agreement. Perhaps the inderect involvement of a maia made it binding.
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The indirect involvement of what Maia? Do you mean Sauron?
If so, I highly doubt it, since it would be to Sauron's benefit to have the Dead die and remain dead.
The Istari?
They weren't in Middle-Earth yet.
Who were you thinking?
I'll agree with you that the curse was a matter of the broken agreement, but it only came to a curse because they BROKE the agreement. Isildur didn't HAVE to curse them for breaking their oath- but he did.
I wonder if the ability to curse like that wasn't tied to the Kingship of Gondor? After all, in Numenor the king was the "high priest of Eru", so to speak, the only one who could speak on Meneltarma on those great feasts. Is there some sort of spiritual inheritance- and inherited power- tied to the Kings of Gondor and Arnor related to that?
Or could it possibly be, as Bergil says, tied to a Maia. But the Maia I am thinking of is Melian, Isildur's many greats- grandmother. Is this another property the line of Elros inherited, along with great healer abilities?
Not sure...