Bruce N H
Active Member
Hey all,
I was just re-listening to class 5, the one that cut off abruptly. I asked a question and Corey said we'd come back to it in a minute, but then the internet gods cut the class short. So I'll put this here:
Things we know:
- The spirits of dead elves can refuse the call to the Halls of Mandos and lurk around Middle Earth (generally a bad idea).
- Necromancy involves communication with the spirits of the dead. Not dead men, since their spirits leave the bounds of Arda, so by default we're talking the spirits of those elves who have refused the call to Mandos.
- During the Great March, elves lingered both on the east side of Mirkwood and later around what would become Lorien. Even some of the Vanyar and Noldor wanted to stay in this area, not to mention the Teleri. So the proto-Silvan elves could have been living right here for millennia.
- Later, the Necromancer set up shop in Dol Guldur, right between these two locations.
Speculation:
- The same elves who were unwilling to go to Aman in the first place might be more likely to refuse the call to the Halls of Mandos after death.
- Perhaps the spirits of elves who don't go to Mandos remain fairly local to the area where they died.
- If so, perhaps the Necromancer set up shop in this area BECAUSE there were more undead elf-spirits lurking around here than anywhere else. What better place to practice necromancy?
Thoughts?
Bruce / Bricktales
I was just re-listening to class 5, the one that cut off abruptly. I asked a question and Corey said we'd come back to it in a minute, but then the internet gods cut the class short. So I'll put this here:
Things we know:
- The spirits of dead elves can refuse the call to the Halls of Mandos and lurk around Middle Earth (generally a bad idea).
- Necromancy involves communication with the spirits of the dead. Not dead men, since their spirits leave the bounds of Arda, so by default we're talking the spirits of those elves who have refused the call to Mandos.
- During the Great March, elves lingered both on the east side of Mirkwood and later around what would become Lorien. Even some of the Vanyar and Noldor wanted to stay in this area, not to mention the Teleri. So the proto-Silvan elves could have been living right here for millennia.
- Later, the Necromancer set up shop in Dol Guldur, right between these two locations.
Speculation:
- The same elves who were unwilling to go to Aman in the first place might be more likely to refuse the call to the Halls of Mandos after death.
- Perhaps the spirits of elves who don't go to Mandos remain fairly local to the area where they died.
- If so, perhaps the Necromancer set up shop in this area BECAUSE there were more undead elf-spirits lurking around here than anywhere else. What better place to practice necromancy?
Thoughts?
Bruce / Bricktales