| |
| | Simbelmyne - Mortality and Memory in Middle-Earth - William H. Stoddard |
 | | Even human dreams are often memories, in fragmentary form; being consciously entered, Elven dreams must be less fragmentary, and Elves can dwell in them more fully than human beings can, so that whatever memories they hold are closer to a living, present experience. |
 | | And with it, Sam rides back to the Shire, to rejoin his wife and daughter and go on with his life just as many soldiers, Tolkien among them, came back from the war to go on with their own lives, grieving for the friends they had lost. |
 | | Its mortal races can no longer hope to live on in first-hand memory that could be shared with their descendants; that memory is in Elvenhome, inaccessible to them. |
| www.troynovant.com /Stoddard/Tolkien/Simbelmyne-Memory.html (3143 words) |
|