Google| Subject | Re: Reading LotR and the newsgroups |
| From | Conrad Dunkerson |
| Date | 08/20/2004 11:21 (08/20/2004 11:21) |
| Message-ID | <KojVc.16265$Zh3.12382@trndny02> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien,rec.arts.books.tolkien |
| Follows | Shanahan |
| Followups | Shanahan (12h & 12m) > Conrad Dunkerson |
" Shanahan" <pogues@bluefrog.com>wrote in message news:cg3jpg02dsc@enews1.newsguy.com...
Shanahan
Here's a question for one of you text experts: I'm referring to the essay 'Of Re-Birth and Other Dooms of Those That Go to Mandos', in Later QS (II), in _Morgoth's Ring_.
So, is that considered "canon" on this matter, or not?Standards of 'canon' vary, but in general that text is not considered particularly authoritative because Tolkien subsequently repudiated the idea that Elves would be 'reborn as children with new parents'. Instead, he wrote in different places that they would instead be 're-embodied' as adults with the help of the Valar. So... more like their fea being put into a cloned body than being reincarnated in a newborn.
08/20/2004
