The Silmarillion Survivor

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by the phantom

But if people for some reason want to keep him around, the next choice should be Olwe ...

But we still may need his boats, tp. Just look what happened when another tribe tried making their own ...

I tend to agree that it was the ineptitude of the Valar and the effect of their ludicrous rules which led to the kinslaying. But it was not Manwe's decision alone. The Valar are rather beaurocratically minded and tend to take decisions by committee. Even if Manwe goes, who is to say that Varda or Mandos, for example, will not propose the same restrictions on Elvish emigration and that the Valar, in committee, will not agree them?

But there is another possibility. If the will of the Valar is not known to the Elves, the Teleri will have no reason to deny Feanor's request. And who is it who publicises the will of the Valar? Why, none other than Manwe's herald, Eonwe.

What does Manwe need a herald for, anyway? Let him do his own dirty work, I say, and then we may see what he is really made of. Get rid of the monkey and we might have an opportunity to test the mettle of the organ grinder and be better placed to assess what he has to offer.

++ EONWE