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Old 06-18-2003, 11:37 AM   #1
Lyta_Underhill
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I could not resist, although it may be in bad taste--I added the shortest quote from the alternate Quenta Silmarillion "Of Fëanor, the Exploding Elf" I could get my sig file to accept. I had this whole line:
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Maedhros bent over the lifeless body of his father and heard a small, echoing voice from deep within Fëanor's chest, as if Mandos himself spoke from afar: "This elf will explode in 5...4...3...2...1...BOOM!" And behold, a great noise overcame the Sons of Fëanor, and they were covered in a black dust. They stood silent as their father spontaneously burst into flame and disappeared entirely!" --from the alternate Quenta Silmarillion, "Of Fëanor, the Exploding Elf"
But the sigfile wouldn't accept it, thus it is shortened. And Amanaduial, I cannot wait to savor the Beren and Luthien tale! I quite enjoyed Aragorn's shortened song of Beren and Luthien in FOTR, and I've heard a whole lot about those two already. I have read the first part, in which the darned curse of the Noldor is invoked again by King Thingol of all people!

Luthien is the name Tolkien wanted inscribed on his wife's grave...alas, he recognized his own conceits, but you've got to love him for them just the same! From humor to melancholy and back again!

Cheers!
Lyta
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