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Old 10-06-2002, 01:08 PM   #3
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I would hazard 2 points 1 internal to the story and another due to JRRT himself.

first, I think Arwen would take on this roll,as mother of/to the Dunedain but we do not see it spelled out.

The other point is that it may well be that JRRT himself had to mature into the being who conceived this. One reason I am so hopefull to see a New Silmarillion is because I see so much more maturity, depth and beauty in the post LotR writings. Dispite their unfinished and often contradictory content, they are imo the height of the Legendarium.

Athrabeth, Laws and Customs, Osanwe-KEnta, Shibboleth, MEn and Dwarves [ containing the Druedain], aldarion and Erendis, the final work on the Hurin/Turin saga, all of these show a mastery that imo JRRT was just begining to acquire in the LotR. It only is hinted at in the Silm as we have it today, you really have to dig through HoME 10-12 and UT.
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