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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
This is more or less the problem I have always had with footnotes in this project, though I can see how they might be justifiable in principle.
Anyway, in this instance, I agree that a footnote is not the way to go.
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Right...got the point...
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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
Their climbing down can be seen as implicit in the statement that they stopped halfway up. In any case, Tolkien seems not to have felt anything more necessary.
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That seems to me right...it is implicit...there is no need to add anything else
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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
As for the dream, I suppose it should probably go. One could suppose that Turin climbed back down and still then had a dream in which he was clinging to the cliff - but I am inclined to agree with Christopher here that this was an artifact of the previous version.
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I can't see the problem of the dream...to me it simply referes to what happened the day after when Turin killed the dragon...I would thus not apply any change...
11-01-2007, 03:29 AM
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