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   From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:58:28 +0100, Troels Forchhammer wrote:   
   > The only argument that can potentially have that power is the   
   > references, including (and possible especially) the statement in   
   > /Letters/, that Tom B. would eventually lose to Sauron. All the other   
   > arguments are circumstantial or suggestive.   
      
   I'm not sure what wold convince a nay-sayer, but one need not even   
   advert to /Letters/.  In Book II, Chapter 2, of LotR we read:   
      
      
   "'But in any case,' said Glorfindel, 'to send the Ring to him would   
   only postpone the day of evil. He is far away. We could not now take   
   it back to him, unguessed, unmarked by any spy. And even if we could,   
   soon or late the Lord of the Rings would learn of its hiding place   
   and would bend all his power towards it. Could that power be defied   
   by Bombadil alone? I think not. I think that in the end, if all else   
   is conquered, Bombadil will fall, Last as he was First; and then   
   Night will come.'   
      
   "'I know little of Iarwain save the name,' said Galdor; 'but   
   Glorfindel, I think, is right. Power to defy our Enemy is not in him,   
   unless such power is in the earth itself. And yet we see that Sauron   
   can torture and destroy the very hills. ...'"   
      
   (Apologies if this has already been brought up.  It's a long thread,   
   and I've only skimmed.)   
      
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