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- From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
- Subject: Re: Where do orcs go upon dying?
- Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
- Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:21:17 GMT
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- References: <carl-181292102410@mac7.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec19.182435.11632@uwasa.fi>
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- In <1992Dec19.182435.11632@uwasa.fi> a70860@uwasa.fi (Carl Patrik Andila) writes:
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- > A related matter, the souls of Saruman, Sauron, and many others
- >were denied entry into the land of the Valar -- but were did they go after
- >that? Tolkien left a hole in his reasoning here it seems. Morgoth's case
- >appears to have been unique, no others were imprisoned in the same way.
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- "For he will lose the best part of the strength that was native to him
- in his beginning ... and he will be maimed forever, becoming a mere
- spirit of malice that gnaws itself in the shadows, but cannot again
- grow or take shape" III, 190
-
- This is about Sauron, I'd guess it applies to Sauruman, too.
- --
- /|/-\/-\ The entire kitchen Jerusalem
- |__/__/_/ is a very three-sided gauze pad.
- |warren@ But the chef
- / nysernet.org is not hungry at all.
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