Re: Onen i-Estel Edain, u'-chebin estel anim

"Mark Tiangco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> After a few years Gilraen took leave of Elrond and returned to her own
people
> in Eriador, and lived alone; and she seldom saw her son again, for he
spent
> many years in far countries.  But on a time, when Aragorn had returned to
the
> North, he came to her, and she said to him before he went . . .
>
> -- I gave hope to the Doonedain, I have kept no hope for myself.
>
> and Aragorn son of Arathorn Chieftain of the Dunedain of the former
> Northern-Kingdoms went away heavy of heart, for after Elrond had revealed
to
> him both Aragorn's true name and his lineage, and the chance meeting the
next
> day of the fairy princess "Arwen Undomiel" "daughter of Elrond" in
Imladris
> where Aragorn had mistook her for THE Luthien "Nightingale" Tinuviel, and
the
> dark years of toil and chance alone in the forest, and after Gilraen
Aragorn's
> mother's "for without the good will of Master Elrond the Heirs of Isildur
will
> soon come to an end", and the encounter with Arwen in Lorien under the
auspices
> of fairy Lady Galadriel where the 49[years old]-er was betrothed to
Elrond's
> daughter, only if it was Aragorn's purpose for Arwen to be the fairy
"Queen" of
> Aragorn's kingdom, midsummer even, Aragorn already knew of Gilraen's
imminent
> departure from her mortal coil.  Ar, fair is only fair, Turin, or, y tu
> tambien, Aragorn thought.  Gilraen died before the next spring...
>
> But Arwen went forth from the House, and the light of her eyes was
quenched,
> and it seemed to her people that she had become cold and grey as nightfall
in
> winter that comes without a star.  Then she said farewell to Eldarion, and
to
> her daughters, and to all whom she had loved; and she went out from the
city of
> Ministereth and passed away to the land of Lorry-in', and dwelt there
alone
> under the fading until winter came.  Galadriel had passed away and
Celeborn
> also was gone, and the land was silent.
>
> There at last when the mallorn-leaves were falling, but spring had not yet
> come, she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Am Roth; and there is her green
> grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are
utterly
> forgotten by men that come after . . .
>
> We had called that the End of the Third Age, and ages after, we find that
the
> Romans had given up their Empire to the Christians during the reign of
> Constantine I.  Then in 325 AD Constantine hastily bids adieu and
establishes
> himself on the Bosporus in Byzantium, later to be known as Constantinople
near
> where today we have Istanbul.  My grandmother Agatona Oca comes from the
same
> class of family as Karen Ibe, where her ancestors were Spanish or
Portuguesas
> from the Iberian Peninsula, invaded and conquered by an Arab contingent,
> probably more than twice even, and all those people, the Spanish,
Portuguese,
> Germans, Britannia, Arabia, Bactria, Gaul, etcetera, fell under the rule
of the
> Emperors of Rome, under the guidance of the governors from Rome, which as
an
> empire had established itself on the auspices of the son of Philip II of
> Macedon, or Alexander the Great, who became the Emperor of Greece and
Thracia,
> from Macedon, son of Philip II, the King of Macedon.
>
> And all that happened after Elrond said goodbye to Arwen and left to her
and
> Aragorn the combined Kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor!
>
> But only if we view LOTR and the Silm as some sort of "history"!
>
> hth
>
>
> Mark Tiangco '/~'








erm....................ok.
So constantine was the last of the line of Isildur?
And Jesus was Radagast.

Douglas