Firstly– welcome to the Downs,
Landroval!
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Originally Posted by Landroval
I realize that those who have already closed their minds to the possibility of the Arkenstone being the Earth-Silmaril won't be be convinced by anything less than the Professor himself rising from the dead and settling the matter.
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Nah, pretty sure we'd settle for a bit of, you know, actual evidence n' stuff. Or– who knows– just a scenario that
didn't have multiple holes in it. Which, you know, hasn't been forthcoming thus far.
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Originally Posted by Landroval
I would point out that the One Ring finding its way to the Bagginses rested with a who series of improbabilities. The events in Tolkien's works are based around numerous, mysterious coincidences, happenstances, and strange chances. If some of us, choose to believe in one more, I don't see what harm is done to the naysayers.
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None– but some of us might just get a bit irritated at being characterised as "those with closed minds", mightn't we?
