Posted: August 10, 2000 at 14:18:30: by Aris Katsaris
: : Yet they *don't* exist as the written page is now, the same way that flying elephants could exist in Middle-earth and yet we have no knowledge they do. I find it silly to take unknown invisible Feanorians of the Second Age into my thoughts, the same I way I waste no time in contemplating the non-use of flying elephants by the forces of Sauron :-): : If Tolkien were to place such surviving Feanorians then obviously my thoughts would have to be changed. But here we're debating just this one thing about Gil-galad, keeping the rest of the story intact... I find it simpler that way... : Yes, and Tolkein DID finally decide upon Orodreth being the Father of Gil-Galad, and therefore the same applies - no point musing on what SHOULD have been, or COULD have been No, it's not the same. I'm discussing about what *should* have been, knowing that it isn't what it actually *was*. You however are talking about what *could* have been, which I perceive to be of extremely small importance since it's neither what Tolkien wrote, nor what he should have written. Aris Katsaris
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