Were the Istari Unable or Unwilling... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Bêthberry · 02-02-2007, 08:45 AM

Reading over this highly interesting thread gives me a wicked idea that is tantalising to entertain.

Why were the istari limited to old men? After all, the species Men includes women. I think Esty's REB III deserves to have an old female emissary. Maybe she even suffers from the wretched injunction not to use her full powers but always to defer to male authority. Yes, yes, fifty ways to keep a good woman down.

Now that's a possibility to ponder . . .

02-02-2007, 08:45 AM	#9
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,005	Reading over this highly interesting thread gives me a wicked idea that is tantalising to entertain. Why were the istari limited to old men? After all, the species Men includes women. I think Esty's REB III deserves to have an old female emissary. Maybe she even suffers from the wretched injunction not to use her full powers but always to defer to male authority. Yes, yes, fifty ways to keep a good woman down. Now that's a possibility to ponder . . . __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.