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Eomer of the Rohirrim · 09-10-2010, 07:20 AM

Good question.

The line is taken out of context. As I recall, Treebeard uses the first part of it --water, earth, air -- in the book to suggest that the light is returning to Middle-earth (proven correct with the defeat of Sauron).

The film uses it awkwardly, and it's exacerbated with the additional line about no-one now living who remember things that are lost. It's a meaningless sentence which amounts to: certain things that some people used to know were not passed on to other people and are thus lost to current knowledge. Might as well say: people die.

In a film featuring several characters with extra-long life, it's particularly odd.

09-10-2010, 07:20 AM	#2
Eomer of the Rohirrim Auspicious Wraith Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 4,859	Good question. The line is taken out of context. As I recall, Treebeard uses the first part of it --water, earth, air -- in the book to suggest that the light is returning to Middle-earth (proven correct with the defeat of Sauron). The film uses it awkwardly, and it's exacerbated with the additional line about no-one now living who remember things that are lost. It's a meaningless sentence which amounts to: certain things that some people used to know were not passed on to other people and are thus lost to current knowledge. Might as well say: people die. In a film featuring several characters with extra-long life, it's particularly odd. __________________ Los Ingobernables de Harlond