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Originally Posted by blantyr
I'd agree with a place taking on personality or emotion if a people lived there long enough, or an extreme event occurred there. (The Dead Marshes might be an example of the latter. Minas Morgul in the early Fourth Age might be another example of a place taking on the character of its inhabitants.) The process could well be related to crafting magic, where a bit of one's spirit might linger. Caradhras? Maybe something started it long ago, but if so we might never know.
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Another example would be Hollin, where, according to Legolas, the stones still remember the Elves who once lived there.
You know Caradhras
is different, though, because there seems to be a real consciousness and purpose behind it, in a way that doesn't apply to the other examples. So I don't know that we can rule out its being inhabited by an actual evil spirit of
some kind. There are quite a lot of beings of unknown origin in Middle-earth.
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Originally Posted by blantyr
I was thinking of Durin I, Durin II, Durin III, etc... I don't think there could only be one soul for all of the Durins.
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Why not?
EDIT:X'd with Morthoron.