Heehee--your life's soundtrack has the same opening credits as mine did. ;)
Yeah, that was a boo-boo caused by forgetting to change your answer with my own!
I could die happily right after doing that... assuming the dolphins are in the wild, of course. ^_^ (I think dolphin "swim with" parks are pretty shady. :\)
I agree because I don't think that it's in the nature of any wild animal just to allow all and sundry people mess with it.
I expect that mine will occur either scuba-diving or at the aquarium. When I eventually start diving there, one of the duties of their divers is to clean the dolphin pool, so I'll swim with them then for sure!
With Feanor, I wonder if The Silmarillion's narrator might have (consciously or subconsiously) influenced feelings in "history" about him because a) he personally disapproved of Finwe's second marriage and was dropping hints of "Look what happens when you don't accept things the way they are and seek a second wife!" and/or b) he was shocked and/or embarrassed by the Noldors' actions and reacted by trying to make certain powerful people look worse than they really were?
Oh, I totally agree, and I bring this up all the time when arguing *ahem* discussing with canatics why a literal interpretation of the book isn't always the best way to go. If you consider the loremasters who wrote the Sil--Rumil and Pengolodh--they both have reasons to portray the Feanorians negatively, especially Pengolodh. I've no doubt that the same story written by a Feanorian loremaster would read completely differenly.
Which may or may not be part of my reason in writing the AMC series of stories. :^P
"Fading"--you said it better than I could! I think I remember a line here or there saying Elves could "waste away from grief"
Yes, it's always been my understanding that "fading" and "death of grief" are two completely different things. Elves can be either slain with weapons or die from grief; that's in the Sil and also an idea that Tolkien seems to have from the very beginning of creating his mythology. I've only read through HoMe 2 for specific information on fading, but it seems that it underwent a slight evolution over time, concluding with the idea that fading is when the Elven spirit became too strong for the body and the Elf ceased to be visible to mortal eyes. However, the Elf was still alive and present in the world. I've yet to find a definitive link in the texts that show "death of grief" and "fading" to be the same thing, though I have a lot of research left to go.
(Can you tell that I'm working on an essay about this subject? :^D)
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Date: 2006-10-12 12:50 am (UTC)Yeah, that was a boo-boo caused by forgetting to change your answer with my own!
I could die happily right after doing that... assuming the dolphins are in the wild, of course. ^_^ (I think dolphin "swim with" parks are pretty shady. :\)
I agree because I don't think that it's in the nature of any wild animal just to allow all and sundry people mess with it.
I expect that mine will occur either scuba-diving or at the aquarium. When I eventually start diving there, one of the duties of their divers is to clean the dolphin pool, so I'll swim with them then for sure!
With Feanor, I wonder if The Silmarillion's narrator might have (consciously or subconsiously) influenced feelings in "history" about him because a) he personally disapproved of Finwe's second marriage and was dropping hints of "Look what happens when you don't accept things the way they are and seek a second wife!" and/or b) he was shocked and/or embarrassed by the Noldors' actions and reacted by trying to make certain powerful people look worse than they really were?
Oh, I totally agree, and I bring this up all the time when
arguing*ahem* discussing with canatics why a literal interpretation of the book isn't always the best way to go. If you consider the loremasters who wrote the Sil--Rumil and Pengolodh--they both have reasons to portray the Feanorians negatively, especially Pengolodh. I've no doubt that the same story written by a Feanorian loremaster would read completely differenly.Which may or may not be part of my reason in writing the AMC series of stories. :^P
"Fading"--you said it better than I could! I think I remember a line here or there saying Elves could "waste away from grief"
Yes, it's always been my understanding that "fading" and "death of grief" are two completely different things. Elves can be either slain with weapons or die from grief; that's in the Sil and also an idea that Tolkien seems to have from the very beginning of creating his mythology. I've only read through HoMe 2 for specific information on fading, but it seems that it underwent a slight evolution over time, concluding with the idea that fading is when the Elven spirit became too strong for the body and the Elf ceased to be visible to mortal eyes. However, the Elf was still alive and present in the world. I've yet to find a definitive link in the texts that show "death of grief" and "fading" to be the same thing, though I have a lot of research left to go.
(Can you tell that I'm working on an essay about this subject? :^D)