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06-24-2004, 02:40 PM
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Banshee of Camelot
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Switzerland
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Apropos Express Train
Tolkien seems to have been fond of this figure of speech
 ; I noticed that already in the Hobbit there is something similar: " he began to feel a shriek coming up inside, and very soon it burst out like the whistle of an engine coming out of a tunnel." But of course Mr.Underhills explanation is spot on!
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