You know, I just realized something that might be of great importance. Borlas specifically states that he knows this "new Evil" for "what it was." Doesn't that sound remarkably like Gandalf trying to convince the rest of the White Council that Sauron had indeed returned, in the Third Age, and that the Necromancer was none other than him? I think that a parallel can be drawn between these two "risings." Perhaps Tolkien intended for this "New Shadow" to be defeated in the same way, by a group of heroes who would journey into the heart of his "realm," and destroy the thing that made him so powerful.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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01-22-2004, 09:26 AM
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