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Sindar in Valinor?

If you have come to satisfaction with such information as you now possess, Ent is ecstatic. The sense of need for progress is reduced.
Do always keep your perspective open to new input, and prepared for change - else it calcifies into Opinion - that killer of all growth potential.
View every new Occurrence through your inherent Wonder, stimulating your Curiosity so it presents as a New Input Event for consideration.
Then, evaluate that New Input Event, considering its acceptance for processing into a proper Perception. (A 12-step process.)
Once a clean and clear Perception, put it through the 8 steps needed to arrive at a New Perspective - whether that New Perspective is identical to the old,* a modification of the old, or even a replacement of the old.

Only this cycle is growth. All else is stagnation.
Perspective not constantly fed directly back into each new Occurence for review once again, simply calcifies into Opinion - i.e. stagnation. May it never be so.

(Should you care for the chart of all steps involved, let Ent know.)

* - Yes, even an identical Perspective in this model of thinking, is a New Perspective. Why? Because the prior one has been rightly challenged, deconstructed, reconstructed, (often further solidified and better supported), and so is "entirely new" though 'seemingly' the same. Make no mistake - if we hold 'the same' perspective, this is Opinion. An identical Perspective will not be truly "identical" so the term is loosely applied. It is not "the same" perspective - though its outworking may appear to be so.
My curiosity is sated and I can move onto new things. I'm always willing to change my opinion in the face of new information.
 
change my opinion
Ah, then I may suggest you hold not an opinion, but a perspective. The two are quite different.
Rare is the one who changes their opinion. Much more frequent, the one who holds a perspective, and that both loosely, and alterably.
Most won't change their Opinion even in the face of irrefutable evidence. (There are many reasons for this.)
 
Hmm. I like the word Elthiric. Just sayin'.

That's it?

Well, there's more that could be said, but in a nutshell the Lingerers haven't died.

". . . the Lingerers are not houseless, though they may seem to be. They do not desire bodies*, neither do they seek shelter, nor strive for mastery over body or mind. Indeed they do not seek converse with Men at all, save maybe rarely, either for the doing of some good, or because they perceive in a Man's spirit some love of things ancient and fair. ** Then they may reveal to him their forms (through his mind, working outwardly, maybe) and he will behold them in their beauty."

*contrast this to the Houseless for example, as it's said that the wicked among them will take bodies, if they can, unlawfully.

**a certain Professor in Oxford, anyone?

(. . .) Filled with so many scraps of interesting information (Galadriel as Celeborn's second wife?!)

Interesting, agreed; but as I read these runes, the idea was struck through.

Not that you said otherwise :) but for any folks who haven't yet read NOME.
 

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