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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT!! Tolkien, Hobbit genealogy, and prepositions
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 10:53:36 -0600
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At 08:49 AM 3/1/03 -0500, Bob Velke wrote:
> Doug Gordon said:
>
> > I would also love to see this, as well as to have someone continue to
> > fill it in. After going through the LOTR trilogy, you could expand it
> > tremendously by reading the Silmarilion, although you will also run into
> > a lot of contradictions along the way.
>
>What?! Conflicting evidence?! <g>
>
>-Bob

Bob:

And that doesn't even take into account "Unfinished Tales", or the
development of the stories (with abandoned genealogies among other things)
that appear in Christopher Tolkien's 12-volumes detailing the history of
his father's writing.

So what would you do with Trotter, the woods-wise Hobbit wearing wooden
shoes who later became: Aragorn son of Arathorn, King Elessar Telcontar,
Strider, the Elfstone, The Dunadan? Talk about your Name-Var tags....

Darrell


Darrell Allen MARTIN
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois
www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/


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