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Hi again. On Episode 107 now, and the description of Elrond -- all hearkening to the idea of evening/nighttime.
It of course underlines Rivendell itself as an embodiment of "the end" or "the last rays" (or as in my previous post, the last Homely House east of the sea).
It is clear, reading LOTR, that Rivendell as it is in the story is all about looking back. It has no future, it is not planning a future. It is remembering Elvenhome, and it seems focused on itself as being a twilight kind of place -- the last point of Elvenhome in Middle-Earth at its sunset.
So, Question for Narnion: Has Rivendell always been this? When we read this deep-dive of LOTR, how are we supposed to understand its current past-looking, present-lingering frame? Is this a new thing? Or has Rivendell, as we experience it reading LOTR, always been a place of looking backward?
Since even Elrond's daughter, the Evenstar, is portrayed as the last glimmer of Elvendom in Middle-Earth, and she was born 2800 years ago in TA 241, it appears that Rivendell and its inhabitants were already preparing for "the end" shortly into the Third Age, if not before. Did this happen when Isildur claimed the Ring and Elrond knew that the ways of Elf and Man were sundered? Or is there more and deeper to the story?
It of course underlines Rivendell itself as an embodiment of "the end" or "the last rays" (or as in my previous post, the last Homely House east of the sea).
It is clear, reading LOTR, that Rivendell as it is in the story is all about looking back. It has no future, it is not planning a future. It is remembering Elvenhome, and it seems focused on itself as being a twilight kind of place -- the last point of Elvenhome in Middle-Earth at its sunset.
So, Question for Narnion: Has Rivendell always been this? When we read this deep-dive of LOTR, how are we supposed to understand its current past-looking, present-lingering frame? Is this a new thing? Or has Rivendell, as we experience it reading LOTR, always been a place of looking backward?
Since even Elrond's daughter, the Evenstar, is portrayed as the last glimmer of Elvendom in Middle-Earth, and she was born 2800 years ago in TA 241, it appears that Rivendell and its inhabitants were already preparing for "the end" shortly into the Third Age, if not before. Did this happen when Isildur claimed the Ring and Elrond knew that the ways of Elf and Man were sundered? Or is there more and deeper to the story?
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