30-10-2001, 19:08
oh la, tout doux dragon, tu m'as l'air aussi sociable que moi ce soir, serait-ce à cause de ce ciel trop bleu? ;)
Bref, puisque j'ai ton livre j'ai cherché la référence exacte (et comme par magie c'est la première page surlaquelle je suis tombée, normal je suis une maia après tout).
Or doncques (HOME X, Myths transformed, section "orcs", page 418)
"For Morgoth had many servants, the oldest and most potent of whom where immortal, belonging indeed in their beginning to the Maiar; and these evil spirits like their Master could take on visible forms. Those whose business it was to direct the orcs often took orkish shapes, though they were greater and more terrible. Thus it was that the histories speak of Great orcs or orc-Captains who were not slain, and who reappeared in battle through years far longer than the span of the lives of men"*
* Boldog, for instance is a name that occurs many times in the tales of the War. but it is possible that Boldog was not a personnal name, and either a title, or else the name of a kind of creature; the Orc-formed Maiar, only less formidable than the balrogs.
Bref, puisque j'ai ton livre j'ai cherché la référence exacte (et comme par magie c'est la première page surlaquelle je suis tombée, normal je suis une maia après tout).
Or doncques (HOME X, Myths transformed, section "orcs", page 418)
"For Morgoth had many servants, the oldest and most potent of whom where immortal, belonging indeed in their beginning to the Maiar; and these evil spirits like their Master could take on visible forms. Those whose business it was to direct the orcs often took orkish shapes, though they were greater and more terrible. Thus it was that the histories speak of Great orcs or orc-Captains who were not slain, and who reappeared in battle through years far longer than the span of the lives of men"*
* Boldog, for instance is a name that occurs many times in the tales of the War. but it is possible that Boldog was not a personnal name, and either a title, or else the name of a kind of creature; the Orc-formed Maiar, only less formidable than the balrogs.
Bonne mémoire, dragon!
Bon c'est pas tout ça mais pour la peine je suis en retard, et toujours en colère!
Necsipaal