From: psperson1@ix.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 08 Dec 2018 18:27:50 +0000, temujin    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 21:23:48 -0500, Stan Brown   
   > wrote:   
   >> and strengthening the Ring by the same amount. The only   
   >> possible reason for transferring much of his own power to   
   >> the Ring was that this would trigger an additional transfer   
   >> of power to the Ring from some other source. In /History of   
   >> Middle-Earth" we find out that that other source was the   
   >> "Morgoth-element" in all the material of the world.   
   >   
   >You mean "valarium" elements from the song of creation? Or the   
   >corruption he spread into the material world after his physical   
   >incarnation? I'm not sure how either would extend life since both   
   >would already be present in the bodies of all living creatures.   
      
   Good catch.   
      
   The term "Morgoth-element" would be that part of Morgoth's being that   
   he infused into Middle-Earth.   
      
   But perhaps Stan has a quote he can provide ...   
   --   
   "I begin to envy Petronius."   
   "I have envied him long since."   
      
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