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To: HairOfTheDog

Morning Hair, what is the "Blue Mantle"?


47 posted on 11/30/2004 1:58:31 AM PST by LinnieBeth
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To: LinnieBeth
Morning Hair, what is the "Blue Mantle"?

The robe Eowyn is wearing.... it's a scene that we really hoped for from the books! And it looks like PJ did his reading. :~D

And so the fifth day came since the Lady Éowyn went first to Faramir; and they stood now together once more upon the walls of the City and looked out. No tidings had yet come, and all hearts were darkened. The weather, too, was bright no longer. It was cold. A wind that had sprung up in the night was blowing now keenly from the North, and it was rising; but the lands about looked grey and drear.

They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks, and over all the Lady Éowyn wore a great blue mantle of the colour of deep summer-night, and it was set with silver stars about hem and throat. Faramir had sent for this robe and had wrapped it about her; and he thought that she looked fair and queenly indeed as she stood there at his side. The mantle was wrought for his mother, Finduilas of Amroth, who died untimely, and was to him but a memory of loveliness in far days and of his first grief; and her robe seemed to him raiment fitting for the beauty and sadness of Éowyn.

But she now shivered beneath the starry mantle, and she looked northward, above the grey hither lands, into the eye of the cold wind where far away the sky was hard and clear.


49 posted on 11/30/2004 4:40:25 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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