Owner of MoHPC

[Jonathan Busby]

(06-15-2020 01:55 AM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  

Quote:"Who wants to live forever?" [...]

Quoting from The Silmarillion:

"But the sons of Men die indeed, and leave the world [...]. Death is their fate, the gift of Ilúvatar, which as Time wears even the Powers shall envy."

So it seems even "the Powers" eventually wouldn't.

V.

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Another Tolkien fan! I don't remember the exact quote, but Eru Iluvatar said that indeed death was a gift for men ( humans in Middle Earth / Arda ( If you want to include Valinor as well, before Iluvatar made the World spherical and destroyed Numenor ) ) and that the place where human souls went after death was a secret, even to the Valar ( The "Powers" to which you refer, which may also include the Maia ), until the ending of the World I've read Tolkien's "The Book of Lost Tales", "The Silmarillion", "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", "The Book of Unfinished Tales" and "The Children of Hurin", but not the "History of Middle Earth" series. AFAIK, there are still mountains of unpublished and/or un-edited material that Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien's son, was still in the process of sorting through, but unfortunately he passed away not too long ago I hope there is more material to be released but I don't know who is now in charge of Tolkien's estate and their level of knowledge w.r.t. Tolkien's writings.

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On-topic, I don't really think that HP will ever again release a calculator in the same vein as say the HP-41, HP-42S or HP48, but, be assured that many people ( including me ) are doing their part to make sure that certain HP calculators and/or operating environments are "immortal"

Regards,

Jonathan