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SilentLion
Rivendell
Dec 26 2012, 7:43pm
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Have often thought that Elrond is overlooked as a tragic figure
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As you point out, he had a lot to lose from the triumph of Gandalph's plan, including Rivendel and Arwen. It seems strange that he never appears to be explicitly tempted in the text of LOTR. Perhaps Elrond's temptation came long before. At the end of the Second Age, Elrond was with Elendil, Gil-Galad, and Isildur in the final combat with Sauron at the Seige of Barad-Dur. When Sauron was vanquished, he was alone with an exhausted Isildur, and was more or less in a position of being the military leader of Elves. The ring would have been within Elrond's grasp at that point, but he appears to have rejected it: first advising Isildur to destroy the ring, and then even accepting Isildur's claim to the ring as a weirguild for his brother and father. Accepting the latter must have been extremely difficullt. After all, Elrond was right that the Ring should have been destroyed, and had Elrond intervened at that point he would have had the rationalization that he was doing so on behalf of other inhabitants of Middle Earth. Once a character has experienced and rejected the temptation of the Ring, it seems like they acquire a degree of immunity to further temptation. Perhaps Elrond's great temptation came much earlier, and once he demonstrated his faith in greater 'plan of thiings', even to the extent of allowing an ally to make a horrible mistake rather than stake his own claim to the Ring, he was immune to further temptation and about as safe a host for Frodo and the Ring as could be found anywhere in Middle Earth.
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Elrond and the ring
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Nerven
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Dec 15 2012, 3:48pm
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I find the text quite clear...
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Otaku-sempai
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Dec 15 2012, 3:55pm
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"If so"
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ElendilTheShort
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Dec 15 2012, 6:29pm
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Elrond
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Nerven
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Dec 15 2012, 7:12pm
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I do not think
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ElendilTheShort
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Dec 15 2012, 11:30pm
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Another
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Nerven
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Dec 16 2012, 9:59am
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I think so
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CuriousG
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Dec 16 2012, 4:25pm
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Very nice analysis
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ltnjmy
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Dec 17 2012, 5:25pm
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Especially Elrond...
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Nolofinwe
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Dec 25 2012, 4:18pm
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A moment of nostalgia
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sador
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Dec 25 2012, 9:32pm
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That
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Nerven
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Dec 26 2012, 10:17am
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Have often thought that Elrond is overlooked as a tragic figure
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SilentLion
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Dec 26 2012, 7:43pm
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Were you responding to me?
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sador
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Dec 27 2012, 6:46am
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Yes, I meant my post as a reply to yours
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SilentLion
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Dec 27 2012, 11:32pm
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Gandalf's temptation by the Ring (or Frodo)
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CuriousG
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Dec 28 2012, 1:44am
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I think in one of his Letters, Tolkien speculates that Gandalf
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SilentLion
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Dec 28 2012, 9:00pm
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Like Pol Pot and bad bunnies
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CuriousG
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Dec 28 2012, 9:20pm
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Good examples!
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SilentLion
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Dec 28 2012, 10:10pm
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Wait a second
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squire
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Dec 28 2012, 11:02pm
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The point is taken that we need to be careful about
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SilentLion
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Dec 30 2012, 12:38am
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Very interesting thoughts
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squire
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Dec 30 2012, 1:24am
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One wonders how Gandalf could be worse
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ElendilTheShort
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Dec 30 2012, 4:15am
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Squire
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ElendilTheShort
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Dec 30 2012, 4:09am
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Just joking, but
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CuriousG
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Dec 28 2012, 1:30am
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