What connection between Goldberry and Ulmo?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Due to an internet shortage, posting one thing I almost posted several days ago, and a short reply to one thing directly responding to my quote, I will read the new posts properly as soon as I have time, and hopefully contribute somehow...

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

And in this case of said comments about Goldberry and her consort, what makes them extreme?

The first one, because it simplifies the theory of "Arda Marred" too much (I more or less expressed my view of that in the post above). The second one is more extreme, because it takes too seriously arguments about sinister nature of Goldberry just from one funny poem (I also spoke about that in the post above), not taking into account that it is funny, that Goldberry does not seem sinister at all in LotR etc.

Originally Posted by Eönwë

So doesn't that mean that Goldberry could not be marred, because water could not be marred?

Even that would be possible. In my opinion, maybe, why not? Depending of course on the thing, that Goldberry is not just water. In any case, water may be, for example, poisoned, but that's rather "destroying" it (cf. Ulmo's words about his powers leaving the waters of Middle-Earth).