Elrond says,
"This is NOT hell. It may be important that you know that."
"No matter what the queen of spiders may say, she is not God and therefore cannot damn any soul to perdition. Hell is where there is no hope of the mercy of god. That condition is never entirely true. But if you believe there is no hope, then there is in fact no hope."
"Also, this is not the farthest place from god. Observe the Web lines rising from this place, anchored in the distant sky ... they are holding this place of spiders aloft. There is farther yet that lolth may fall."
Junius:
ReplyDeleteThen we must cut those lines and send her to a place from which she cannot return. It seems to me that those lines are wither material or spiritual. If material, we should be able to cut them somehow. If spiritual, then they are manifestations of some hope she has, which means that the real way to sever them is to convince her that she has no hope at all.