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Old 10-07-2022, 08:49 AM   #3990
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Originally Posted by Galadriel55 View Post
We have 6 iterations of "a [kinsman] to a [kinsman, mostly]". Then there is "a chain of 6 who never met" - begging the connection that it just links all the above statements together, as opposed to a whole separate chain of 6. The difficulty? "The husband to the first" I initially took to mean "the first line/sister/answer" - but that implies a meeting between two answers
Which would be a problem... why?

'tis neither Gondolin nor the House of Hurin.

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