What was the Arkenstone? - Page 2 - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Sillabub · 07-13-2003, 08:01 PM

it was a rock

Gwaihir the Windlord · 07-15-2003, 01:53 AM

Interesting, but I don't think Thrain was senile (I assume your post was in jest, shorty, but I'm going to say something on Nimphelos anyway). [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] For a start the Dwarves wouldn't have lost the Nimphelos if they were in secure possession of it, and at any rate would certainly not get it confused with an entirely other stone. A different stone.

the guy who be short · 07-15-2003, 11:42 AM

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Interesting, but I don't think Thrain was senile (I assume your post was in jest, shorty

Yes, my post was a joke. Can't really imagine a senile dwarf. Also, please refrain from calling me shorty. I dont mind TGWBS though.
There is now no chance the Nimphelos was the Arkenstone. I have no evidence other than that already stated, but do not believe it was a Silmaril.

Finwe · 07-15-2003, 01:45 PM

The Nimphelos and the Arkenstone could definitely not be the same because one was a pearl and the other was a diamond. Even for a senile Dwarf, there is absolutely no chance of confusing a pearl with a diamond. It's just impossible. Even an uncut diamond looks nothing like a pearl, and wouldn't the other Dwarves have thought it strange that a huge pearl turned up in the middle of a mountain? Some of them, knowing old legends, would have probably recognized it, and written it down. I think that when it was hidden, it was lost. There is nothing more to say.

07-13-2003, 08:01 PM	#41
Sillabub Wight Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: GONDOR!! Posts: 138	it was a rock __________________ They were holding umbrellas. Not just any umbrellas- BLACK umbrellas. Not just ANY black umbrellas- these were...(knuckle-biting time) the BLACK UMBRELLAS OF DEATH!!!!! cue sinister music

07-15-2003, 01:45 PM	#44
Finwe Deathless Sun Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Royal Suite in the Halls of Mandos Posts: 2,609	The Nimphelos and the Arkenstone could definitely not be the same because one was a pearl and the other was a diamond. Even for a senile Dwarf, there is absolutely no chance of confusing a pearl with a diamond. It's just impossible. Even an uncut diamond looks nothing like a pearl, and wouldn't the other Dwarves have thought it strange that a huge pearl turned up in the middle of a mountain? Some of them, knowing old legends, would have probably recognized it, and written it down. I think that when it was hidden, it was lost. There is nothing more to say. __________________ But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.

07-15-2003, 01:53 AM	#42
Gwaihir the Windlord Essence of Darkness Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Evermore Posts: 1,420	Interesting, but I don't think Thrain was senile (I assume your post was in jest, shorty, but I'm going to say something on Nimphelos anyway). [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] For a start the Dwarves wouldn't have lost the Nimphelos if they were in secure possession of it, and at any rate would certainly not get it confused with an entirely other stone. A different stone.