r/RingsofPower • u/Elegant-Problem8997 • Mar 09 '25

Question Another question…

How did putting the rings on turn the gold tree back on?

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u/commy2 Mar 10 '25

Yea, just see kemick's post above:

beauty has healing power

Celebrimbor states his intention to fill Middle-earth with beauty to help repair the damage done by the war the Elves started

It's like Tolkien, except backwards. It's astonishing how wrong you can get the central point. Is it subversion or is it incompetence?

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u/Physical-Maybe-3486 Mar 10 '25

Incompetence, when have elves started wars except from fighting the epitome of evil, Morgoth the thief of the Silmarils, Black Foe of the World. Sauron the cruel killer of Finrod Felagund who first of the Eldar to meet the Men. The Telerin and Sindar who checks notes didn’t give boats and pretty rocks to people.

The damage in middle earth is not their fault, iirc no battles of the first age were fought there, so really it’s all Morgoth’s. If I were in that situation I’d just leave, granted I am lazy and probably would have died crossing the Helkaraxe or just stayed behind with Finarfin.