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Where is this exactly, and why change the name?
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While I'm not aware of any explicit note (though there may be one), all of Tolkien's writings show a change from 'k' to 'c' in Quenya beginning toward the end of the 1940s. This is not a change to the Quenya at all, merely to the Roman alphabet representation of Quenya; presumably he though the 'k' looked 'uncouth' and he preferred a more Latin-looking 'c'.
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Is it really that important to say that his horse was white? Do we even know that?
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This was a grave error that I have thoroughly repudiated. I thought at the time that the
TO, the outline I was using for much of the transition, needed expansion here. I was wrong. This change has already been revoked and does not (I think) appear in the draft.
10-09-2002, 09:22 AM
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