Why, way back in my great-great grandpappy's day...
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In any case, it still seems a bit surprising that the Rohirrim would preserve something so similar to "minlamad thent/estent" through the intervening six thousand years.
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While I grant that six thousand years is certainly a long time for humanity to preserve a form, I still find it plausible, in the context of Middle earth, that a people so deeply rooted in oral tradition would have preserved it.
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...finding a path that cannot be found, walking a road that cannot be seen, climbing a ladder that was never placed, or reading a paragraph that has no...
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11-13-2004, 11:42 PM
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