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- From: jim@rand.org (Jim Gillogly)
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- Subject: Re: Death of a Maia
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 19:46:00 GMT
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- In article <1i7ekbINNddf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ses2@po.CWRU.Edu (S. E. Stansfield) writes:
- >In TLOTR there are three Maiar that "die". Sauron, Saruman and the Balrog.
- >In the first two cases there is a cloud that appears and then disperses.
- >When Saruman is killed on the doorstep of Bag End the cloud "looks" to the
- >west and is dispersed by a suddenly appearing wind.
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- Gandalf also died, I claim, and was resurrected. Isn't this explicitly
- stated in one of JRRT's letters?
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- Jim Gillogly
- Mersday, 12 Afteryule S.R. 1993, 19:45
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