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Originally Posted by alatar
When the Fell Beast dies, doesn't it leave a 'stain' where nothing grows? Aren't there other examples where evil creatures die and their rot becomes a herbicide? Now, take something that spent some time in the Blessed Realm. How much more likely would its 'dust' impart some good effect on whatever was grown from it?
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And "The grass grew long on Snowmane's Howe" or whatever the exact quote was.
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Originally Posted by Formendacil
Do the Elves actually have enough corpses to sustain all those crops? I mean, that works well for a fruit tree, maybe, but it won't take care of an orchard, and you'd need a whole cemetery to grow grain for lembas. Sure, after the Last Alliance there might have been a burst of Elven agriculture, but there would not have been a good supply of fertilizer thereafter.
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Maybe they dried all the corpses, like in the box Galadriel gave to Sam, so they would last longer. In fact, maybe the last remains of someone like Gil-Galad were in that box that was given to sam. Eurgh!
