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Måns · 08-10-2003, 03:13 PM

Let us not forge tthat Tolkien after all ahd a classical education and knew ancient Greek to some extent. I do not doubt what you are saying is correct, but somehow ravager, sacker, plunderer seems more like to orcs than "demon-corpse" and I have heard that before. Still Tolkien was wise as too few today and must have thought it only fitting with the words double meaning. A luittle like Orthanc, meaning both "Cunning mind" and "Mount Fang".

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08-10-2003, 03:13 PM	#5
Måns Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Stockholm Posts: 63	Let us not forge tthat Tolkien after all ahd a classical education and knew ancient Greek to some extent. I do not doubt what you are saying is correct, but somehow ravager, sacker, plunderer seems more like to orcs than "demon-corpse" and I have heard that before. Still Tolkien was wise as too few today and must have thought it only fitting with the words double meaning. A luittle like Orthanc, meaning both "Cunning mind" and "Mount Fang". Måns __________________ "One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a stastistic." Josef Stalin