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Originally Posted by Urwen
Red book of Westmarch, then?
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Correct.
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I don't know that it was dyed with iron (some red dyes use mercury ores instead), but the death of iron is rust-red.
The
ink, however, would have been iron-based, which is the meaning of the third line: it's just a grisly description of writing with a quill pen.
Over to you!
hS