Thanks for the welcome, 'Vana! (clinks glass and drinks deeply, perhaps TOO deeply!). I can't resist a good discussion! And Saucepan Man (great name, by the way!), thanks for bringing up old Tom of the yellow boots! Tolkien certainly defined him as an enigma, and perhaps the enigmas of the world are the only real DEM's; taking that thought slightly further--perhaps the only things we believe are DEM's are those things which are beyond our understanding and so are classified by us as enigmas! I take this as a corollary to the magic/science threshold...
Cheers,
Lyta (proud but also strangely humbled to be a pile o' bones!)
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“…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”
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