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   From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   One thing I hope was handled decisively early in the   
   Fourth Age was the destruction of the Watcher in the Water,   
   whether by Aragorn's troops or Khazad out to avenge Oin   
   or some collaborative effort or whoever.   
      
   What would have been needed beyond the destruction   
   of the dam on the Sirannon that secured its habitat   
   and thereby imperiled any travelling mellon?   
      
   I don't know if it would have simply suffocated exposed   
   to air,but any protesting tentacles would have needed   
   and deserved to be amputated.   
      
   -=-=-   
   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)