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Old 03-01-2002, 08:07 AM   #3
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh
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That's a good story.

The dispersal of power is an interesting and probable side-effect, but I think that the intention in making Two Trees, the One Ring, the Silmarils and the ships of Alqualonde into once-only creations was to emphasise their value and to make certain narrative situations work properly: the destruction of the Two Trees is a lesser tragedy if two more can be grown in their place; if the ships of Alqualonde could be replaced there might have been no kinslaying and so on.
I think (wholly without factual evidence) that the idea that some things are irreplacable, but that we should never let that lead to rash actions, was an important one to Tolkien.
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