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Beregond · 12-06-2008, 10:35 AM

Can we have a hint, please? This question kept me up last night and I still couldn't find a relationship between Legolas and Saruman. I think it might be something they said?

Legate of Amon Lanc · 12-06-2008, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Beregond

Can we have a hint, please? This question kept me up last night and I still couldn't find a relationship between Legolas and Saruman. I think it might be something they said?

Oh, Yes, indeed, since you ask, it was expressed by something they said. It was a kind of... common view of things

Like for example if they had met somewhere (if they happened to sit together in an inn, or in a train or something

) and started to talk, they could discover that they have this thing in common.

Beregond · 12-15-2008, 10:49 PM

Clearly this is a two-hint question.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 12-19-2008, 12:41 PM

All right, you see, this is something they would both agree on, some kind of opinion they had in common, and they both expressed it in their words at some point. Each of them at least once. But they both did not necessarily express it just by words - only I think the words are most apparent.

Hmm, I had some better hint in mind last time when you asked, but unfortunately, I forgot it, apparently

But if you ask for more hints, hopefully I can come up with something better. This is just for now.

Inziladun · 12-27-2008, 01:43 PM

Would it be something along the lines of both believing the time of the Elves to be over, and the time of Men beginning?

Legate of Amon Lanc · 12-28-2008, 05:00 AM

Nay. I am sure there were more people who thought that - many Elves, like Galadriel, for example.

The thing in concern was expressed by Legolas in a far "milder" way than Saruman did. Nevertheless, it is obvious that their opinion on this thing is shared.

They would disagree on this with almost all the other characters in the Fellowship.

Pitchwife · 12-28-2008, 10:16 AM

They both disapproved of / were annoyed with other people smoking the weed of the halflings.
I don't have the books with me to give you exact quotes, but the situations were these:
- Legolas with his companions in the ruins of Isengard (Flotsam and Jetsam)
- Saruman with Gandalf at the White Council, before he took up the habit himself (somewhere in Unfinished Tales).

12-06-2008, 10:35 AM	#1
Beregond Playful Ghoul Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,251	Can we have a hint, please? This question kept me up last night and I still couldn't find a relationship between Legolas and Saruman. I think it might be something they said? __________________ "Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green."

12-15-2008, 10:49 PM	#3
Beregond Playful Ghoul Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,251	Clearly this is a two-hint question. __________________ "Hope and memory shall live still in some hidden valley where the grass is green."

12-19-2008, 12:41 PM	#4
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	All right, you see, this is something they would both agree on, some kind of opinion they had in common, and they both expressed it in their words at some point. Each of them at least once. But they both did not necessarily express it just by words - only I think the words are most apparent. Hmm, I had some better hint in mind last time when you asked, but unfortunately, I forgot it, apparently But if you ask for more hints, hopefully I can come up with something better. This is just for now. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

12-27-2008, 01:43 PM	#5
Inziladun Gruesome Spectre Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Heaven's doorstep Posts: 8,039	Would it be something along the lines of both believing the time of the Elves to be over, and the time of Men beginning? __________________ Music alone proves the existence of God.

12-28-2008, 05:00 AM	#6
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Nay. I am sure there were more people who thought that - many Elves, like Galadriel, for example. The thing in concern was expressed by Legolas in a far "milder" way than Saruman did. Nevertheless, it is obvious that their opinion on this thing is shared. They would disagree on this with almost all the other characters in the Fellowship. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

12-28-2008, 10:16 AM	#7
Pitchwife Wight of the Old Forest Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall Posts: 3,329	They both disapproved of / were annoyed with other people smoking the weed of the halflings. I don't have the books with me to give you exact quotes, but the situations were these: - Legolas with his companions in the ruins of Isengard (Flotsam and Jetsam) - Saruman with Gandalf at the White Council, before he took up the habit himself (somewhere in Unfinished Tales).