Post by hengest on Sept 3, 2020 11:27:58 GMT -5
When I was a kid, my mother took me to a cave (you know, a tourist cave) as a reward (her idea) for being patient during a particularly miserable all-day shopping trip. That was a nice gesture on her part.
I liked the cave, but I can't say it made that big an impression on me.
That said, I do return to it when I think of Gimli's impression of the caves at Helm's Deep:
'Strange are the ways of Men, Legolas! Here they have one of the marvels of the
Northern World, and what do they say of it? Caves, they say! Caves! Holes to fly to
in time of war, to store fodder in! My good Legolas, do you know that the caverns of
Helm's Deep are vast and beautiful? There would be an endless pilgrimage of
Dwarves, merely to gaze at them, if such things were known to be. Aye indeed, they
would pay pure gold for a brief glance!'
i.e. what one people thinks is just a useful hole in the ground is a natural wonder to another people.
What other instances can we think of and use, instances where one man's trash is another man's treasure?
I liked the cave, but I can't say it made that big an impression on me.
That said, I do return to it when I think of Gimli's impression of the caves at Helm's Deep:
'Strange are the ways of Men, Legolas! Here they have one of the marvels of the
Northern World, and what do they say of it? Caves, they say! Caves! Holes to fly to
in time of war, to store fodder in! My good Legolas, do you know that the caverns of
Helm's Deep are vast and beautiful? There would be an endless pilgrimage of
Dwarves, merely to gaze at them, if such things were known to be. Aye indeed, they
would pay pure gold for a brief glance!'
i.e. what one people thinks is just a useful hole in the ground is a natural wonder to another people.
What other instances can we think of and use, instances where one man's trash is another man's treasure?
