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Filli
Hobbit from Hobbiton - Rank 4
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Date: Jan 21, 2010
Testing times
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"Don't eat yellow snow"

Sacrifice is a theme which runs through the works.
I don't just mean one's life.

No, I mean sacrifices such as Aragorns years in the wilderness.

or

Well..... who else has given up something, as dear as life ?



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Bear
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What? No lemon ice?

Sacrifice?
How about Eowyn in her service to Theoden..."a wild spirit caged..."

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lomoduin
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Down here it's don't sit on yellow sand.

Faramir to sacrafice himself if needed to appease a thankless father.

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Is this a 'Who made the greatest sacrifice' thread?wink.gif

Hurin, of course.

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Filli
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shang alang a ding dong

How about Elros.

He chose mortality...I never worked out why ?

I bet that question , kept Ar-Phazron awake.

Why would a blessed immortal give up his grace ?

Which leads me to Elrond.

Although I don't think he would have stopped his daughter from marrying Aragorn. And there was a Thingolish challlenge to Aragorn....he supported Arwen in her choice 

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vestalmiss
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I would say Frodo.

He had no wife, no children, no personal life really. Sad.



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Galin
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'He chose mortality...I never worked out why?'

Perhaps Elros Halfelven strongly considered that the tales of the Elves might contain the escape from Deathlessness.


'Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.' JRRT, On Fairy-Stories

Luthien escaped so, it might be said. Depends upon one's point of view here.

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Bear
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Testing times?
Maybe we ought to ask, "What did the Elves think of Men?"

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