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unless the Great Sea should enter in and wash it with oblivion
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The flooding of parts of Middle-earth is not an unprecedented concept - see Númenor, for example, though that occurred primarily as a punishment. I can't help but make a connection to the Biblical Great Flood of Noah's time, which had not only a punishing purpose, but was meant to cleanse the earth as well. Perhaps that's what happened to the desolation surrounding Mordor? It was washed away in the all-encompassing flood...
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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