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Originally Posted by Urwen
Oh, I think I may have it.
It's dragons.
Deck me out in fiery colours:
Gold and red and yellow too - Glaurung is gold; Smaug is red
Feed me well with times and places;
Your memories I'll take from you. - Glaurung, as he did with Nienor
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It is
not dragons; dragons were a red (or gold, but probably not yellow) herring that I've been trying so hard not to rule out until someone said it. So thank you!
To the best of my knowledge, Glaurung is the only instance of actual memory theft in Tolkien. So the question becomes: how can you 'take' someone's memories without taking them
away?
hS