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Telchar · 06-05-2001, 11:23 PM

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/wight.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Shock the Wizard

No No - Beregond - You got it rigth! I was a astonished too! It is the ancient egyptians.

For one thing the Faraos wore a high helmlike thingy very much alike to the crown of Gondor - just without the wings - And the Gondorians was very obsessed with tombs and they embalmed their Kings.
Tolkien wrote this in a letter to a woman who asked, among other things, about the design of the crown of Gondor. In the letter he also made a sketch drawing of the crown <img src=smile.gif ALT="

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<img src=smokin.gif ALT=":smokin"> So go on Beregond

Anar kaluva tielyanna!</p>

06-05-2001, 11:23 PM	#66
Telchar Stonehearted Dwarf Smith Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 2,247	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Shade of Carn Dûm Posts: 331</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/wight.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Shock the Wizard No No - Beregond - You got it rigth! I was a astonished too! It is the ancient egyptians. For one thing the Faraos wore a high helmlike thingy very much alike to the crown of Gondor - just without the wings - And the Gondorians was very obsessed with tombs and they embalmed their Kings. Tolkien wrote this in a letter to a woman who asked, among other things, about the design of the crown of Gondor. In the letter he also made a sketch drawing of the crown <img src=smile.gif ALT=""> <img src=smokin.gif ALT=":smokin"> So go on Beregond Anar kaluva tielyanna!</p> __________________ Anar Kaluva Tielyanna.