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To: HairOfTheDog
"hmmm... My read on the situation at the moment is that Sauron and Saruman were both probably holding their cards close while pretending to be allies...

This reminds me of a passage from the previous chapter that I had underlined and should have mentioned earlier.

Eomer speaking to Aragorn after asking for privacy from the rest of the Mark--"All that you say is strange, Aragorn,' he said. "Yet you speak the truth, that is plain: the Men of the Mark do not lie, and therefore they are not easily deceived. As long as I am quoting old material- there was another passage from "The Riders of Rohan" that made a deep impression on me.

Again, Eomer to Aragon, "How shall a man judge what to do in such times?"
Aragorn replies; "Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwares and another amoung Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house."

Sorry, I should have been more agile, and mentioned this in the previous chapter.

The converse of the first quote is pure scripture - - "....men will go about deceiving and being deceived."

255 posted on 08/02/2002 4:28:57 PM PDT by LinnieBeth
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To: LinnieBeth
Agreed! - Well put! - I noticed those lines too in the previous chapter, and they are good ones... Glad you remembered to bring them in!
256 posted on 08/02/2002 4:53:14 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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