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Old 08-18-2008, 09:48 AM   #96
Mithalwen
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Don't hate her because she is beautiful; are we sure that her beauty was merely outwardly? Some of us troglodytes see inner as well as outer beauty.

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I don't hate her for being beautiful I hate the fact that it is the sole criterion. That Luthien is placed highest for her beauty where as those who were wise and resourceful and served their people as well as being beautiful are sidelined.

And dying for love is so irritatingly adolescent.
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