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08-04-2004, 10:42 AM | #1 |
Shade of Carn Dûm
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Stupid, quick question about Malbeth
Do you guys think Malbeth the Seer is a girl or a boy?
I always envisioned a old woman like from Macbeth, but then I looked at the Malbeth entry in Foster's "Complete guide to M-E" and it said Malbeth was a 'he', Encyclopedia of Arda has him as a him too. I checked RotK and the Appen., and I didn't find any 'he's or 'him's or anything to really denote a gender. My mom said 'seers' are usually men, but I haven't heard that anywhere else. So is there some other text of Tolkien's that tells a definite gender, or is it really possible that Malbeth was a girl?
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08-04-2004, 11:04 AM | #2 |
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I had always thought he was a Man. Maybe an expert in the languages can point out the most likely answer.
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08-04-2004, 02:09 PM | #3 |
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hmmm well i always thought malbeth was a woman because the name just came across as female. but then i havent a vivid imagination and think "she" looks like mystic meg
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08-04-2004, 02:10 PM | #4 |
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Malbeth is a man.
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08-04-2004, 02:15 PM | #5 |
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Odd question but not at all stupid
Yes, I always thought Malbeth was a female because of the name and the fact that it has "beth" at the end of it, which is obviously a girls name! I watch a TV programme called Charmed and its about magic etc and there is a seer on that, and its a female. So, I just get the image of a woman rather than a man.
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08-05-2004, 09:54 AM | #6 |
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Interesting that the girls think Malbeth's a girl and the guys think Malbeth's a guy (if I'm inferring correctly from your screen-names)...
Son of Númenor: Got a reference?
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08-05-2004, 10:00 AM | #7 |
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Indeed Malbeth sounds like a women but I always thought if it were a man it would look like john edwards but otherwise I envisioned an old women that looks like the psycic from "Shadow of Destiny"(a game for PS2 that's really fun)
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08-05-2004, 10:38 AM | #8 |
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Seers are male, the female equivalent is seeress, like prince/princess
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08-05-2004, 11:39 AM | #9 |
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Seeress? Hmm, somehow not so...catchy.
I imaged Malbeth as being a sort of mysterious, ancient wizard type - somewhat like Merlin, I suppose.
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