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07-02-2007, 12:46 PM

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Lalaith

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I suppose today we would have named the survivor "the lucky"

Exactly.
I think Tolkien understood the whole idea very well....I think the Turin/Tuor parallel is a good illustration of the difference between fortune and misfortune in the Norse sense - compare Skarphedin with Kari, those of you who have read Njalssaga....

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