Lilly being blind (Long)

[Sass]

No: HPFGUIDX 129087

> <rochesteruponmedway at y...> wrote:

> > What is Lily's big secret?
> > She was blind.

OK, I think I got the attribution right this time ! (I've apologised to 
Barmaid for my genuine mistake in misattributing something to her - I was in 
too much of a rush owing to my PC having been on the fritz and I wanted to 
get the message posted before it crashed again !)

With regard to this, or rather, with regard to the importance of Lily's (and 
Harry's) eyes, I was reading Patrick Curry's book, *Defending
Middle-earth*today, and something caught my eye (oops ! Sorry, no pun
intended) which I
think might be of interest and possibly even important... Curry is talking 
about how the Elves of Middle-earth are humanoid/chthonic, and mentions that 
when Frodo, who's been injured by a Nazgul knife, sees Glorfindel the Elf as 
"a shining figure of white light", and that Gandalf later explains to Frodo 
that the High Elves (such as Glorfindel) "live at once in both worlds, and 
against both the Seen and the Unseen they have great power." (*LotR*, 'Many 
Meetings' Book 1) Curry goes on to say that "the Elves, as a race of beings 
[...] exist both within Tolkien's world and outside it, in the worlds of 
cultural, historical and religious experience, survive from the 
'mythological days' when humans (or beings in human form that we recognise 
as, in some non-trivial way, ourselves) were not just the passive Cartesian 
objects of light and sight, but were equally its subjects and agents. As 
such, the Elves remind us of ourselves before 'the Nothing' [...] came to 
deaden, and our eyes, rather than being merely the receptors of light but 
also, in some more than narrowly metaphorical sense, emitted it. After all, 
we still rightly speak of someone's eyes, in moments of being fully alive, 
as shining." (*Defending Middle-earth*, p. 138)

So my speculation is that Lily's eyes can emit light and allow her to do 
magic or something similar, because she hasn't been deadened by "the 
Nothing"; she isn't a "passive Cartesian object of light and sight", but has 
a power in her eyes, which Harry has inherited...

(I don't have any kind of acronym for this - if it's obligatory to have one, 
I'll leave it to someone else to create one for my "theory"...)

Sass 
-- 
"Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man." 
- Seneca


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