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Old 10-07-2009, 02:58 PM   #10
Mnemosyne
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Originally Posted by Nogrod View Post
That's why those elves dwelling in the West had no such problems, living in the platonic world of perfectness as they were. And because of that gap between men and the elves we men can never really understand the bliss of an ever-unchanging world the elves might long for - and therefore the only meaning given to us humans is, like Gandalf says "deciding what to do with the time that is given to us".
Sort of kind of. I mean, even the Valar are supposed to eventually envy us mortals and our ability to say, "So long, suckers!"
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