I've always been suspicious of him because I just don't understand anyone who thinks that immortality would be a good thing
Again, I think it's more interesting to think of what 'trying to get immortality' might mean. Does it mean that he wanted his name to go down in history, to be remembered after his death; for example, as the king who forged a new path for Númenor (and hence came into conflict with the Valar)?
Perhaps it's another translation back into pre-industrial terms of something which we would describe differently in modern terms. To take a current example: perhaps Ar-Pharazôn put a lot of money into what we would call medical research, e.g. to increase longevity. Perhaps the more traditionalist Elendili saw this as blasphemous, as interfering with nature.
Any chance we can convince you to write a story about this?
To do it properly (and I wouldn't want to do it badly) would just entail so much work (learning Adûnaic for starters!).
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Date: 2004-04-18 07:18 am (UTC)Again, I think it's more interesting to think of what 'trying to get immortality' might mean. Does it mean that he wanted his name to go down in history, to be remembered after his death; for example, as the king who forged a new path for Númenor (and hence came into conflict with the Valar)?
Perhaps it's another translation back into pre-industrial terms of something which we would describe differently in modern terms. To take a current example: perhaps Ar-Pharazôn put a lot of money into what we would call medical research, e.g. to increase longevity. Perhaps the more traditionalist Elendili saw this as blasphemous, as interfering with nature.
Any chance we can convince you to write a story about this?
To do it properly (and I wouldn't want to do it badly) would just entail so much work (learning Adûnaic for starters!).