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Old 02-23-2002, 09:17 PM   #13
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Other exceptions to the be-good-stay-good and be-bad-stay-bad dynamic in ME are:

- Osse, the god of the surf, who, we are told, had rebelled and followed Morgoth but repented and served Ulmo faithfully thereafter, though a little stormily now and then.

- Surpringly, Sauron, who repented at the end of the First Age but couldn't stick it out thereafter.

- Another instance is Thorin who succumbs to Dwarf-greed in the Lonely Mountain and afterward is cleansed of his greed by his approaching death.
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