The pearls of Holt Lutra

[Lutra]

I thought of this as I finished up re-reading Pearls of Lutra and I pondered this coming upon the ending.  The pearls belonged to the Holt of Lutra, and in the end Grath chose to stay with Inbar and the pearls were not exchanged until after Martin, Durral and the rest, left them far behind on Ruddaring.  What confused me though, is why it was said that the pearls belonged to Tansy.  Technically, the pearls belong to Grath; it would've just been a major inconvenience to get them to her, but that doesn't explain ownership of the pearls.

While I'm certain the result would have been the same--Grath would've probably chucked the pearls into the sea--shouldn't that have been her choice?

Your thoughts?


EDIT - to clean up the post, it was sloppy. :p

[Taggerung The Otter]

yeah...that meks no sence

[Skipper]

Well I guess grath wasn't really bothered about the pearls, all she wanted was revenge and she got it. Also I belive Martin the 1st spoke to the abbot in his sleep saying the pearls belonged to the abbess -which was Tansy.
Grath might have given the pearls to redwall as a thank you gift, who knows?

[Taggerung The Otter]

Brian does

[redwallgurl]

well the pearls couldve ended up in the island grath was at but she would probably throw them out too becasue the only brought destruction wouldnt you think and sadness to her

[Taggerung The Otter]

good choice

[Skipper]

Brian does

And how do you know? Hmmmmm

[Taggerung The Otter]

h made the book

[Skipper]

But he might not have put any thought into this topic

[Lutra]

I suppose we aren't going to ever know what Mr. Jacques thought of the topic, or why it happened the way it did, I was simply seeing if there was any other perspective on this.

[Taggerung The Otter]

unless he kept a journal

[Osu]

That's a good point, Lutra. I'm kind of shocked at myself for not noticing it earlier. Yes, the pearls most certainly belonged to Grath in the end. Perhaps she gave them to Martin and Co. off scene? I can't see Grath letting the last piece of her family just sail away without a word, even if she was in love + revenge hungry.

I agree with Skipper for the most part, I think she just gave them away.