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The White CouncilRe: a few questionsTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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The White CouncilRe: a few questionsTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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Posted by RobRoy on June 26, 2000 at 09:17:48 In Reply to: Re: a few questions posted by Erestor on June 26, 2000 at 08:04:43:
: Everyone in Middle Earth could change their height. This is not necessarily true, as we may see the aged stand more erect and the young put forth their confidence in their bearing, but the suggestion that "everyone" could change their height is not supported. However, those with a great deal of personal power, or with the aid of a power, do seem to have the ability. : Gandalf does with the wolves, at Rivendell and at Bag End. : Strider does in the inn at Bree. : Galadriel does at the mirror. : Sam does in the tower. : Frodo does with Gollum. : I do not think all these people could really change their : height. To the extent that they physically grew taller, I would agree, although Gandalf does seem to be able to, or at least appear to, grow physically taller. I would not put it past Galadriel while she weilded a Ring, nor Frodo while he used the One Ring. :Tolkien was describing them being imposing and one part : of this was them looking taller than they really were. I think : it is the same with the Balrog. However, the problem is that with all the others a definitive height is not given, the simply "drew" themselves up, and we are led to assume (correctly) that this is simply a matter of asserting themselves and doing so physically as well as mentally. Yet, with the Balrog we are given a height: "it drew itself up to a great height . . .". Since Tolkien only rarely exagerates throughout LOTR, we can take this to mean that the height was something other then the normal. The Balrog either is physcially taller, or it projects itself as seeming physically taller, but in either instance to the eyes of the Fellowship it WAS taller. -RR
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