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Post by Eyalan on Oct 2, 2006 12:34:03 GMT -5
There's not much said in the Two Towers book about the Forbidden Pool. What do you think? Was it just a trick of Faramir; to make Frodo talk by making up a story about the pool, or was there more to it?
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Post by Anwyn on Oct 2, 2006 15:34:09 GMT -5
I have a theory that it wasn't the pool itself, but more of its location since it was right before the caves in which they had kept there operation, and that since it was amongst the only entrance (That I am aware of) It was closely guarded by the Rangers, and that if someone (or something) that they did not reconize was nosing around they would assume it was an enemy or spy and kill it.
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Post by Eyalan on Oct 2, 2006 15:39:31 GMT -5
So the 'Forbidden Pool' is not actually something from higher hands? I was hoping for some legend...  |
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Post by Anwyn on Oct 2, 2006 15:51:13 GMT -5
Not that I am aware of, but I will look it up in my spiffy new LOTR encylopedia a little later.
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Post by Eyalan on Oct 2, 2006 15:53:30 GMT -5
*sits back already enjoying the story to come*  |
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Post by Anwyn on Oct 2, 2006 16:05:17 GMT -5
Sorry to disappoint, but it is not in my book at all and there is not even an entry directing to another article, so I looked it up on a really reliable site and I found nothing more than we already knew, no ledgend or anything.
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Post by Eyalan on Oct 2, 2006 16:16:00 GMT -5
Oh well, thank anyway for trying a lot! I also did a bit of research as well, and this is what The Thain's Book said: Pool in Ithlien. The Forbidden Pool was located below the hidden refuge of Henneth Annun. It was a deep, oval-shaped basin with rocks as sharp as knives on the bottom. The waterfall of Henneth Annuth flowed down the cliff on the eastern side and filled the pool. Water flowed out of the Forbidden Pool through a narrow opening in the rocks and formed a stream that flowed past the Field of Cormallen. So perhaps the scary atmosphere around it has also something to do with the danger of entering the pool. It sounds like not a place you want to bathe... |
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Post by elfie on Oct 16, 2006 19:34:25 GMT -5
Interesting..Even though I was hoping there was some ledgend behind it also.  |
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Post by Miluiel Greenleaf on Oct 20, 2006 22:52:17 GMT -5
It sounds legendary...the Forbidden Pool. Like something happened to give it its name...I would have thought that, anyway.
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Post by Eyalan on Oct 23, 2006 5:00:42 GMT -5
Mil, you're a writer! Can't you make something out of it?  |
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Post by Tulmind on Oct 24, 2006 5:57:28 GMT -5
Well in the BFME game you can spawn troops from it and if they destroy it you lose. So im pretty sure its their base/hideout/thing. And when gollum entered the pool they almost shot him because if he found out their base by accident then that would not be good. Hence the name forbidden pool. I think it would be a cool place for a hideout though!
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Post by Eyalan on Oct 24, 2006 6:54:08 GMT -5
;D I think that's just it, Hobo!
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Post by Tulmind on Oct 24, 2006 15:13:01 GMT -5
*dances* oh yea who rocks? thats right lol. Still i think it looks cool. Sorta like a mini haunted house.... BOO!!!
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Post by aerlinnielbloom on Oct 24, 2006 22:43:00 GMT -5
^^^^^Yeah, if Mil can't think of something, I don't know who will! Writing was never my field...
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Post by Miluiel Greenleaf on Oct 29, 2006 20:53:36 GMT -5
^You're too humble! You're way better than you give yourself credit for.
Anyway, hate to dissappoint but I've no idea about the origins of the name. Perhaps simply a creative term invented by Tolkien? That's my most writer-based theory because I do the same. But while Hobo raises an excellent point, I believe it was called the Forbidden Pool prior to the incident with Gollum because that is what Faramir refers to it as, doesn't he? I can't remember...I generally avoid ROTK because of the lack of elves and the fact that practically the last elves of Middle Earth leave. Terribly sad for me, anyway. Anyway. Perhaps a similar incident occured beforehand?
Eya, you asked me to make something from it: Forbidden obviously means restricted: Perhaps it was called the Forbidden Pool because it was so near to the hideout of Faramir and his men and therefore that would lead one to assume it was always guarded heavily as to keep one from "stumbling" upon it.
Is that a reasonable theory?
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