Re: MEPBM Riddle help needed

From: Darrell Shimel <Darrell.Shimel@MCI.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000

Morgwraith wrote:
>
> It was an age of deed and tale
>   of little joy and much travail.
>      Long was it before the eye did close and we saw the sun.
>         How many was it now that it's done.

Sounds like the 3rd age.

All major races declined.  War, desease, death, etc.

The eye did not close until the destruction of the One Ring.  ending the
3rd Age.

>
> A Sindarin word for one of three
>    that raised their fingers to the sky.
>      Here within living rock a chamber be.
>         An endless stair to lead to on high.

No clue.  Mark Jaede should be able to help on this one.

>
> Devised in the second but died out there as well
>   Revived in the third history does tell.
>     Used by those who stood in highest stead
>       their words alone brought the direst dread.
>
How about the Ringwraiths?

1st age ended with the forging of the One Ring.  In the second, Suaron
enslaved the kings on men with the Human Rings of Power, turning them
into Ringwraiths.  They were all killed in the wars leading up to
Isuldur taking the One Ring from Suaron.

In the 3rd age, they were reembodied.

Suaron stood in high stead, but "those" seems to imply plural.  I don't
know who else would have "used" the Nazgul. (SP?)

LOR is full of comments about people being filled with fear at the sound
of the Ringwraiths' voice.

> Thanks in advance
Glad if any of this helps.
Darrell

References

MEPBM Riddle help needed
morgwraith@aol.com (Morgwraith)
Wed, 09 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000

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MEPBM Riddle help needed
morgwraith@aol.com (Morgwraith)
Wed, 09 Apr 1997 00:00:00 +0000