... that it is neccersarily a question of the authority to cast a lasting
curse, since in Tolkien's writings about Middle-earth most curses tend to hold
and come to pass whoever happens to say them. But in any case Isildur is a
Numenorean, and of the Faithfull of Numenor, so the Valar may still have heard
and made his curse stand because of
that.
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"Why do I do all these dangerous, potentially life threatening things? Because they're fun, and I'm just as likely to die walking down the street!"
I have Boromir's hair.
"At that point when your flying through the air, and you know your going to hit the ground hard and in the wrong position, thats when the argument over whether Balrog's have wings becomes academic, because the hard facts are, you don't, and the ground is gonna hurt!"
- Me describing what went through my head as the 540 over a set of stairs on my rollerblades went terribly wrong.