Themes in LotR - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 02-23-2002, 09:17 PM

Other exceptions to the be-good-stay-good and be-bad-stay-bad dynamic in ME are:

- Osse, the god of the surf, who, we are told, had rebelled and followed Morgoth but repented and served Ulmo faithfully thereafter, though a little stormily now and then.

- Surpringly, Sauron, who repented at the end of the First Age but couldn't stick it out thereafter.

- Another instance is Thorin who succumbs to Dwarf-greed in the Lonely Mountain and afterward is cleansed of his greed by his approaching death.

02-23-2002, 09:17 PM	#13
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Other exceptions to the be-good-stay-good and be-bad-stay-bad dynamic in ME are: - Osse, the god of the surf, who, we are told, had rebelled and followed Morgoth but repented and served Ulmo faithfully thereafter, though a little stormily now and then. - Surpringly, Sauron, who repented at the end of the First Age but couldn't stick it out thereafter. - Another instance is Thorin who succumbs to Dwarf-greed in the Lonely Mountain and afterward is cleansed of his greed by his approaching death.