Of Beorn

[Legolas]

It was evident that you put a great deal of thought into the theory.

On "the whole Radagast, master of shapes and hues thing," I would've liked to known more about Radagast and how these attributes came out in him.

This is a quote from Letter No. 163:

But I met a lot of things on the way that astonished me. Tom Bombadil I knew already; but I had never been to Bree. Strider sitting in the comer at the inn was a shock, and I had no more idea who he was than had Frodo. The Mines of Moria had been a mere name; and of Lothlórien no word had reached my mortal ears till I came there. Far away I knew there were the Horse-lords on the confines of an ancient Kingdom of Men, but Fangorn Forest was an unforeseen adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the Stewards of Gondor. Most disquieting of all, Saruman had never been revealed to me, and I was as mystified as Frodo at Gandalf's failure to appear on September 22.1 knew nothing of the Palantíri, though the moment the Orthanc-stone was cast from the window, I recognized it, and knew the meaning of the 'rhyme of lore' that had been running in my mind: seven stars and seven stones and one white tree.

Saruman comes up as Tolkien is mentioning a few things (off the top of his head) that we made up all-of-a-sudden without any planning. As Lord of the Rings was written, the world he had been creating in The Silmarillion was altered greatly. Saruman had never been thought of, nor the nature of the Istari, I'd imagine, since Saruman was the first to volunteer at Manwe's council.

[ November 20, 2002: Message edited by: Legalos ]