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Old 07-11-2006, 02:13 AM   #17
Thinlómien
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Originally Posted by Anguirel
They exemplify the characteristics of the people they govern. It's not so much that Finwe rules the Noldor, as that he is the Noldor, and in my view the reason the High Kingship in Middle-Earth foundered is that by the Third Age there was no one who could...act as a symbol of the entire Noldorin race.
When you put it in that way, it reminds me very much of ents and Treebeard...

Did the ents adopt this part of old Elvish culture when the adopted language? Who knows. Or maybe that kind of leadership was sort of "natural" for ents too...
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