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Old 01-17-2003, 10:31 PM   #6
Aratlithiel
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Those are very insightful interpretations, guys. Thanks for sharing them. More, please!

So, what do you think the sea-bell (the white shell) represents? He finds it in the first lines of the poem and carrries it throughout. In the final lines, he casts it away.

Is he casting away hope, as littlemanpoet suggests? Or is he just accepting his fate? Or something else?
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- I must find the Mountain of Fire and cast the thing into the gulf of Doom. Gandalf said so. I do not think I shall ever get there.
- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
- Where are we going?...And why am I in this handbasket?
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