Re: OT: Two Towers movie

Isidora Zamora scripsit:

> When you see Gandalf lying on the mountain peak and sort of travel in
> through his eyes and see the stars...there are gas clouds, nebulae, and
> other extraneous materials floating in space.  Those shouldn't be there if
> this is Arda.  Varda made the stars, and they are lights in the sky, not
> other suns far away.  (My husband noticed this.)
I can't agree with you there.  When the World was Made Round, the rest of
the universe had to be adjusted too, presumably to its present state.
The Sun retreated to 93 million miles away, the stars were reorganized
into galaxies, the Earth acquired eight sibling planets, and so on.
All preserving (most of) the appearances, though the Numenorians in
exile were able to figure out the differences "by star-craft".

> Gandalf comforts Theoden on the death of his son saying that his spirit
> was strong in life and will make its way to the halls of his fathers, or
> something like that.  Not in Arda it won't.  The souls of Men do not go to
> the Halls of Mandos, but pass westward and depart from Arda.  What happens
> then is anybody's guess as far as I have been able to gather from anything
> that I have read.  (I noticed this one myself quite recently.)
Gandalf knows that, but that doesn't mean he's going to trash Theoden's
beliefs in such an hour.

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