Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Gotta run now....later....
Try Encyclopedia of Arda. Rings of Water, Air, and Fire.
My sister used to be an investigator for a District Attorney in South Mississippi (she was the first woman in the State to hold that position, I believe). She had the poop on the judges AND the attorneys. She knew which attorneys actually WORKED and which ones only put in the time! It is good to know people in those positions!
Elrond did not have a ring until sometime after the Last Alliance. Gil-Galad (name means, basically, "Starlight", though it has connotations of "Star-shine" as well) had the ring of Water, Vilya, until his death. So it's not likely that Elrond took the ring right off Gil-galad's still warm corpse. That's the kind of thing Men do...
Gandalf has Narya, the ring of fire, which was Cirdan's. Gandalf showed up about a thousand years after the Last Alliance
Some people are being unfair with the whole Turgon thing. If you'll remember, his friend Huor told him to leave because he knew that was the only hope for Middle Earth... which was true. Huor's son Tuor would marry Turgon's daughter Idril, and their son would be Earendil, and his sons were Elrond and Elros....
Any other queries I missed? I'm in database class, please distract me!
The basic elf-instict to run away when danger approaches. Witness Gildor putting as much distance as he could between him and Frodo when he found out the Black Riders were after the little guy!
We would just have had a different story. How about Saruman, knowing the one ring is gone, tries for the Three Rings? Just think of all that elf-running!
I actually like Elrond! His attitude toward men could also be because he was half-man, half-elf, though he chose the immortal life. He must have held in contempt the weaker part of his nature, having seen what became of the descendents of his brother who chose the mortal life of men.
Isildur would have kicked his butt.
Uh... good question. Isildur did have the Ring, but he didn't know how to use it, and I doubt it was too fond of him. Elrond, on the other hand, was an Elf - but not near as powerful as he is in LotR. He was Gil-galad's right hand man, but he wasn't as wise, strong, or noble as he would become.
I'd say, yes, he could take out Isildur. But he wouldn't have; that's not in his character.
I had just pictured Elrond as being much more, oh, I don't know..."comfortably in commmand", wise and placid. Whereas in the movie he seems a bit uptight and out of his depth.... Just my first impression...
(blush!) I guess I'm lucky at that... I'm going to have to get a website of my own again so I can stop hotlinking...
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