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Feanorsdoom · 06-01-2007, 01:43 PM

If anything, I think the Legendarium is an exercise in the idea that evil basically cannot be stopped until the very end, as is implied in the Ainulindale. No matter how far out in the Void Melkor is thrown, he always finds his way back, or his leiutenant does, or people get to squabbling over the neato stuff he left behind. After all, the doom of the Silmarils wasn't to end up in the crowns of the Good Guys and the One Ring wasn't destroyed by the goodness of Frodo, but the greed of Smeagol. Eru never quite gets around to letting Good win completely. If that happened, there would be no reason to set down the 'lessons of history'.

06-01-2007, 01:43 PM	#23
Feanorsdoom Animated Skeleton Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 27	Gollum Saves the World! If anything, I think the Legendarium is an exercise in the idea that evil basically cannot be stopped until the very end, as is implied in the Ainulindale. No matter how far out in the Void Melkor is thrown, he always finds his way back, or his leiutenant does, or people get to squabbling over the neato stuff he left behind. After all, the doom of the Silmarils wasn't to end up in the crowns of the Good Guys and the One Ring wasn't destroyed by the goodness of Frodo, but the greed of Smeagol. Eru never quite gets around to letting Good win completely. If that happened, there would be no reason to set down the 'lessons of history'.