...or perhaps they were another natural "incarnation" in middle-earth, like the ents and (sorry aule believers) tom bombadil, hence aragorn's reference to "beings not in league with sauron" as birdland kindly quoted. i'm constantly hit with the impression that many elements of lotr (now the hobbit too) were left "stranded" in the tolkien cosmology as he developed and expanded it.
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every man's life is a path to the truth -- hesse
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pity this busy monster,manunkind, not / -progress is a comfortable disease;/ your victim (death and life safely beyond) / plays with the bigness of his littleness
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