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Originally Posted by Gollum the Great
I am sure someone's mentioned this before, but reading through ancient Greek literature and start mistakenly reading things like: the moddess Athene. It's kind of funny in the juxtaposition of that modern term and the one of long ago.
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I've been there, Gollum!  It's also fun to make comparisons between ancient heroes and Tolkien's heroes, achilles the prideful Numenorean, Ajax the Dwarf, Diomedes the Elf! Oh the possibilities are endless!
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