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10-22-2005, 11:17 AM
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Shadow of the Past
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Minas Mor-go
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Tolkien was bit by a tarantula as a child in South Africa. A nurse sucked out the poison. Perhaps his giant spiders of later stories are in memory of the giant tarantulas of South Africa.
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