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galpsi · 07-27-2000, 04:47 PM

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"> I wouldn't have thought that you counted the thumb as a finger, owing to its own distinctive name and status. Which makes the third of four ambiguous. I went with the traditional western identification of the finger next to the little finger as the "ring finger." For historical evidence, see the (anonymous German) Bridal Pair in the Cleveland Museum, Jan van Eyck's portrait of his wife in the Stedelijk Museum in Bruges, or the Titian Venus with a Mirror at the National in Washington.

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galpsi The Unquiet Dead Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 971	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ghost-Prince of Cardolan Posts: 0</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/wight.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: On which finger had frodo the ring, when gollum... The answer is crystal clear -- except that it isn't. <img src=wink.gif ALT=""> I wouldn't have thought that you counted the thumb as a finger, owing to its own distinctive name and status. Which makes the third of four ambiguous. I went with the traditional western identification of the finger next to the little finger as the "ring finger." For historical evidence, see the (anonymous German) Bridal Pair in the Cleveland Museum, Jan van Eyck's portrait of his wife in the Stedelijk Museum in Bruges, or the Titian Venus with a Mirror at the National in Washington. </p>