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- From: klaus@diku.dk (Klaus Ole Kristiansen)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: Aragorn
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.094820.9196@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 09:48:20 GMT
- References: <1glvl3INNa0j@mirror.digex.com> <lewchuk.724709072@therien> <BzH5xt.2LA@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec19.005710.1031@netcom.com>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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- solovay@netcom.com (Andrew M. Solovay) writes:
-
- >In article <BzH5xt.2LA@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> mdickey@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Gaelmeth) writes:
- >>Also, why in Middle-Earth was Aragorn SO against
- >>going through Khazad dum in _The Fellowship_?
- >>Did he have some idea of what was to come?
-
- >Aragorn, like Gandalf, had been through Moria on his own. He knew
- >that it was an evil place, filled with Orcs, Trolls, and worse.
- >He probably assumed that Moria, like everything else, had gotten
- >worse in recent years. I think that alone would be enough to
- >explain his reticence.
-
- But not his remark that it was for Gandalf in particular that
- he feared.
-
- Aragorn says to Eomer: "Maybe we will meet again, even if the
- army of Mordor should stand between us." (Quotes from memory)
- At the battle of the Pelennor fields, that is exactly what
- happens, and Eomer says "I did not know that you were a man
- foresighted."
-
- I have noticed only these two examples of Aragorn's foresight
- in TLotR. Are there more?
-
- Klaus O K
-