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Rohan


Dec 20 2014, 9:45pm

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Yes, it was the Noldor in particular [In reply to] Can't Post

who were into smithcraft, and it is no coincidence that of the three kindreds of Elves that went to Valinor, they had the stormiest career. There seems to be an interesting relationship in Tolkien's imagining between the skill to rework the material world in this way and certain kinds of temptation - to be too wedded to one's own creations and inclined to disregard others as a result, or to be too ready to force things into the way one thinks they should be. Feanor going to war over the Silmarils he made; Sauron entrapping people by teaching them to forge Rings of power - and the terrible destructive mess he makes of the earth in any land he takes; Saruman (the saru- bit means skilled/cunning) going the same way with his "mind of metal and wheels", trying to bring about good by force; the Dwarves' danger of gold-lust ... there seems to be a link between these things.

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