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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT!! Tolkien, Hobbit genealogy, and prepositions
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:31:19 -0600
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At 08:21 AM 3/1/03 -0500, klaidlaw wrote:
>Yes, Darrell, you should have resisted. Now you will start an entirely new
>OT subject line while we await the next release...
>Kurt
>
> > I should probably resist, but note that Tolkien the philologist, professor
> > of Old English for years at Oxford (for which work he was knighted), ended
> > the third sentence in the above quotation thus: "... at the time which
> > these tales tell of."
> >
> > Darrell

Yet another reason to anticipate ...

Darrell


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


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