Post by Stormrider on Jan 19, 2009 13:32:14 GMT -6
From: Stormridr (Original Message) Sent: 6/1/2003 9:26 PM
"The Tree in the Court of the Fountain is still withered and barren. When shall I see a sign that it will ever be otherwise?" Aragorn asked Gandalf.
"Turn your face from the green world, and look where all seems barren and cold!" said Gandalf.
The Aragorn turned, and there was a stony slope behind him running down from the skirts of the snow; and as he looked he was aware that alone there in the waste a growing thing stood. And he climbed to it, and saw that out of the very edge of the snow there sprang a sapling tree no more than three foot high. Already it had put forth young leaves long and shapely, dark above and silver beneath, and upon its slender crown it bore one small cluster of flowers whose white petals shone like the sunlit snow.
Why would the sapling be found growing in a barren and cold place? Did it require this atmosphere to grow?
Did Gandalf lead Aragorn to this spot knowing that the sapling was there or was it just by chance?
Gandalf commented: "But this is an ancient hallow, and ere the kings failed or the Tree withered in the court, a fruit must have been set here. For it is said that, thought the fruit of the Tree comes seldom to ripeness, yet the life within may then lie sleeping through many long years, and none can foretell the time in which it will awake. Remember this. For if ever a fruit ripens, it should be planted, lest the line die out of the world."
The fruit of the Tree was not meant for consumption but rather procreation.
Which King planted the ripened fruit that this sapling sprouted from?
Why did the fruit seldom ripen?
Why would it take so long for the fruit to actually start to grow?
Why could none foretell the time it would awake?
Then the withered tree was uprooted, but with reverence; and they did not burn it, but laid it to rest in the silence of Rath Dínen.
Why would they lay an old withered tree to rest with the Kings?
And Aragorn planted the new tree in the court by the fountain, and swiftly and gladly it began to grow; and when the month of June entered in it was laden with blossom.
"The sign has been given," said Aragorn, "and the day is not far off." And he set watchmen upon the walls.
Why did Aragorn have to wait for the sapling tree to blossom?
What is the significance of this sign?
Was this an indication that Aragorn had passed some "test" or "requirement" before something else could take place?
The White Sapling
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Copyright Darrel Sweet. All Rights Reserved
"The Tree in the Court of the Fountain is still withered and barren. When shall I see a sign that it will ever be otherwise?" Aragorn asked Gandalf.
"Turn your face from the green world, and look where all seems barren and cold!" said Gandalf.
The Aragorn turned, and there was a stony slope behind him running down from the skirts of the snow; and as he looked he was aware that alone there in the waste a growing thing stood. And he climbed to it, and saw that out of the very edge of the snow there sprang a sapling tree no more than three foot high. Already it had put forth young leaves long and shapely, dark above and silver beneath, and upon its slender crown it bore one small cluster of flowers whose white petals shone like the sunlit snow.
Why would the sapling be found growing in a barren and cold place? Did it require this atmosphere to grow?
Did Gandalf lead Aragorn to this spot knowing that the sapling was there or was it just by chance?
Gandalf commented: "But this is an ancient hallow, and ere the kings failed or the Tree withered in the court, a fruit must have been set here. For it is said that, thought the fruit of the Tree comes seldom to ripeness, yet the life within may then lie sleeping through many long years, and none can foretell the time in which it will awake. Remember this. For if ever a fruit ripens, it should be planted, lest the line die out of the world."
The fruit of the Tree was not meant for consumption but rather procreation.
Which King planted the ripened fruit that this sapling sprouted from?
Why did the fruit seldom ripen?
Why would it take so long for the fruit to actually start to grow?
Why could none foretell the time it would awake?
Then the withered tree was uprooted, but with reverence; and they did not burn it, but laid it to rest in the silence of Rath Dínen.
Why would they lay an old withered tree to rest with the Kings?
And Aragorn planted the new tree in the court by the fountain, and swiftly and gladly it began to grow; and when the month of June entered in it was laden with blossom.
"The sign has been given," said Aragorn, "and the day is not far off." And he set watchmen upon the walls.
Why did Aragorn have to wait for the sapling tree to blossom?
What is the significance of this sign?
Was this an indication that Aragorn had passed some "test" or "requirement" before something else could take place?