Re: Middle Earth Riddle From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 02:50:06 +0000 In article <1993Apr19.233933.24248@udel.edu> baidins@dori.cis.udel.edu (Juris Baidins) writes: >In the Game Systems Inc. Middle Earth game I have come across the >following riddle and would like some candidate answers. > >Linked and yet linked again >bound to be bound for binding >once to hold for great ages three >til one did find himself free One possibility: This could be the chain Angainor that bound Melkor (see _Silmarillion_, p. 52 Ball.). Melkor was chained for three Ages of Valinor; I don't believe we know how long those Ages were (especially since they were before the Sun and Moon). Melkor was bound by this chain again at the end of the First Age, and thrust into the Timeless Void, where he waits still... -- Andrew M. Solovay "I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All." -- Pooh Up