Aw, Sharon, you beat me to it!! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] In rereading the LotR, I just noticed Tolkien's only (to my knowledge) use of the term "matriarch" in speaking of Gollum's grandmother. I thought that was interesting!
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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