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Old 10-02-2000, 12:09 PM   #6
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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/redeye.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Who knows their trolls?

He who uses the words of the Barrow-Wight as canon has probably strayed from the path of good sense.... but....

I believe that 'Day shall come' had nothing to do with the time of day. It was just his way of saying 'Your time is gonna come.'

And it does say that he was slaying trolls, his axe smoking in their black blood, until the Orcs grappled him.

Then Gothmog bound him and dragged him away.

Thus ended Nirnaeth Arnoediad, as the sun went down beyond the sea.

I think its clear here that the word 'thus' was referring to the capture of Hurin, and after that 'the sun went down'. I can't read this any other way though I have been trying all afternoon.

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