Who's the oldest? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Afrodal Fenyar · 04-04-2003, 08:45 AM

Bombadil is the eldest, as is said. And I do not think that he's an ainu at all, but some enigma - maybe that embodiment of Arda, as burrahobbit suggested? Or some enigma, some strange spirit. Anyways, not an ainu. I think. Eru he is not, as there is no embodiment of Eru in Eä. Treebeard simply cannot be the oldest, because the ents awoke at the same time as elves. Even if he would have been alive as a tree before that, he can't be the oldest, as the trees weren't created in the beginning.

Well, Eru probably is the oldest, but he's not in Arda..

04-04-2003, 08:45 AM	#35
Afrodal Fenyar Haunting Spirit Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Finland Posts: 94	Bombadil is the eldest, as is said. And I do not think that he's an ainu at all, but some enigma - maybe that embodiment of Arda, as burrahobbit suggested? Or some enigma, some strange spirit. Anyways, not an ainu. I think. Eru he is not, as there is no embodiment of Eru in Eä. Treebeard simply cannot be the oldest, because the ents awoke at the same time as elves. Even if he would have been alive as a tree before that, he can't be the oldest, as the trees weren't created in the beginning. Well, Eru probably is the oldest, but he's not in Arda.. __________________ "Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!" ~Eomer