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Middle Earth RPG

Started by wulfgar, April 24, 2008, 09:18:35 AM

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Akrasia

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April 29, 2008, 09:38:49 AM
Quote from: KenHRYeah, but find a passage where someone stumbles over that damned turtle! :)
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Volume 7 of 'The History of Middle-Earth', page 274, footnote 5.
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April 29, 2008, 09:39:44 AM
Quote from: ClaudiusA blessing upon you, Akrasia! :worship:
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Merci! :)
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KenHR

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April 29, 2008, 01:13:06 PM
Quote from: AkrasiaVolume 7 of 'The History of Middle-Earth', page 274, footnote 5.

No, if you read that entry carefully, Christopher Tolkien notes that the word "turtle" is conjectural, as the word exists only as an erasure of an early draft in pencil, subsequently written over in ink and then heavily edited at a later time, probably after massive changes to the status of turtles in the mythology had been contemplated by his father.  Subsequent drafts B, C, and F don't mention turtles, though D does have a passage regarding the "invisible testudines" employed by the ancient pukel-men to trip up the unwary; however, this is only found in a long discursive passage about the derivation of the Sindarin word for broccoli, and its significance is unclear.
For fuck\'s sake, these are games, people.

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