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Originally Posted by Pitchwife
This raises another interesting question, if we go with the translator conceit: How was Tolkien the translator able to read and understand the Red Book (which must have been written in Tengwar and probably Adūnaic or some hobbit dialect thereof) without knowing the language and script beforehand? This is, as far as I remember, never explained.
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Hm, perhaps there is a Middle-earth version of the Rosetta Stone....
