The oldest people of ME?

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: The oldest people of ME?

I found another 'clue'.
Silmarillion, Of Aule and Yavanna; Manwe quotes this as Eru's words:

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> When the children awake, then the thought of Yavanna will awake also, and it will summon spirits from afar, and they will go among the kelvar and the olvar...<hr></blockquote>

and...
<blockquote>Quote:<hr> ...before the Children awake there shall go forth with wings like the wind the Eagles of the Lords of the West.<hr></blockquote>

I. Quote one conveys simultanity, or the second event after the first.
II. Eru wanted to lighten Yavanna's sorrows for the rooted beings. Why did he not mention that the shepherds of the trees would awake first of all, then?

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'Spirits summoned from afar' only adds to my theory, I may say, of post-Eruhinian (what a nice word <img src=wink.gif ALT=""> ) animation of trees.

Dragons sailing on the breeze, / Black and gleaming beam / The hand upon the steering-board / has set my spirit free / Lost no more to time and place for / I have seen the land / I have heard the valkyrie's song / and I've touched Ódhinn's hand.</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000003>Sharku</A> at: 4/20/01 9:31:01 am