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Originally Posted by Anguirel
Rivendell was a happy! accepting! nice! place. It had no element of Elven scariness and hauteur, while retaining Elven culture and skill.
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Originally Posted by Anguirel
That apart: I support hippy communes. What is wrong with peace, love and brotherhood?
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All very well and good, but entirely inappropriate in such troubled times.
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Originally Posted by Anguirel
All the survivors from Eregion would have been massacred
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Better to die nobly and with honour on the field of battle than shamefully skulk away in some arty-farty commune. Surely,
Ang, you recognise that neither Feanor nor his sons would have approved.
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Sauron would have conquered Eriador
The line of Arnor could not have survived
And the sweet little Hobbits would be completely doomed...
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Pure speculation. And the well-being of Hobbits is, for the purposes of this contest, irrelevant.
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Originally Posted by Anguirel
Just like Elrond, he's been in every Survivor so far; but he won't admit it, hiding beneath aliases like "Gorthaur" or "The Necromancer". He's even come second once, but he's still not satisfied. He thinks he has a "right" to win; he needs to be disillusioned, and soon.
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I do not disagree. I expect Sauron's time to come. But given the current balance between the tribes, I do not believe that time is now.