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- From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
- Subject: Re: Orcs in the Last Alliance
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.193711.22812@netcom.com>
- Organization: People's Front of Judea
- References: <1h4i59INN8fa@mirror.digex.com> <suwandi.724960207@sfu.ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:37:11 GMT
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- In article <suwandi.724960207@sfu.ca> suwandi@fraser.sfu.ca (Julian Suwandi) writes:
- >dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) writes:
- >
- >[some stuff in ref to Similarion]
- >> All living things were divided in that day, and some of every
- >> kind, even of beasts and birds, were found in either host, save
- >> the Elves only.
- >
- >>Does this mean that there were orcs and trolls fighting for Gil-Galad
- >>and Elendil in the last alliance? Ents fighting on both sides? Or
- >>am I reading too much into this passage?
- >
- >That is interesting.. I doubt that the Ents would fight on either
- >sides at that time (cos they are a peaceful race and they don't get
- >'hasty':)
-
- I can't believe that the Ents would fight for Sauron, since
- Sauron had earlier destroyed the gardens of the Entwives (and
- probably destroyed all the Entwives as well). But some of the
- Huorns could easily have fought for Sauron.
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