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October 12th, 2004, 07:59 PM
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OT: Gandalph, your sig is missing an article
Gandalph, forgive me for being a purist, but....
The Tolkien verse in your sig is missing an article in the Last line. The correct quote is...
"Deep roots are not reached by the frost"
This is per page 231 of my Ballantyne copy of The Fellowship of the Ring, in the chapter entitled "Strider", where the hobbits first meet Aragorn/Strider at the Prancing Pony inn in Bree.
Again, my apologies for being so pedantic, but that story has been my favorite for 38 years, and I had to say something  |
October 12th, 2004, 08:08 PM
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Re: OT: Gandalph, your sig is missing an article
/me gives Possum a medal of fandom.
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October 13th, 2004, 06:27 PM
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Re: OT: Gandalph, your sig is missing an article
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/me gives Possum a medal of fandom.
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Maybe it should have been a pendant of fandom? 
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If I only could remember half the things I'd forgot, that would be a lot of stuff, I think - I don't know; I forgot!
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October 13th, 2004, 07:53 PM
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LOL, as a result of this thread, and thinking about Tolkien, I started today reading the Fellowship of the Ring again.
This will be the 8th or 9th time, I'm not sure which. First time was in 1967 or 68 
I've actually hammered my way through the Silmarillion too. |
October 13th, 2004, 10:18 AM
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Re: OT: Gandalph, your sig is missing an article
Corrected, just for you . Seriously, I have also been a fan since the first time I read the trilogy when I was 12, unfortunately, I have not reread it for at least 15 years so I came pretty close, eh? 
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October 13th, 2004, 10:43 AM
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LOL, thanks!
VERY close, indeed!
Seriously, Tolkien is inconsistent on use of articles. He sometimes leaves them out to make the number of syllables per line work
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October 13th, 2004, 11:51 AM
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Re: Tolkien fanaticism
<wipes tears from his pendantic eyes>
"I love you, my brothers..."
<sniff, sniff>
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October 13th, 2004, 12:17 PM
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Re: Tolkien fanaticism
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<wipes tears from his pendantic eyes>
"I love you, my brothers..."
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You don't seem very pedantic to me.  |
October 14th, 2004, 01:58 AM
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Re: OT: Gandalph, your sig is missing an article
Oh, I never knew where that neat quote is from. I haven't read Tolkien yet... I've gotta do that one of these days. |
October 14th, 2004, 01:11 PM
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Re: OT: Gandalph, your sig is missing an article
Kamog, give it a try, do.
But I have noticed that those who read it first as children seem to love it all their lives, (or at least well into middle age, LOL.)
But those who first read LOTR as adults are often far less impressed.
Mind you, the tale has a great deal to offer to the mature mind. There are depths and subtleties that I entirely missed as a child, and even as a young man. Then it was only a rousing adventure tale to me.
In more recent years, I have come to see the other charms of the story. For example, there are deeper observations on right and wrong, and how knowing that you are morally in the right can strengthen you beyond anything you would have thought possible.
In this world we live in, where ethics seem irrelevant to so many, LOTR is a refreshing tale of the advantages of virtue.
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