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Mithalwen · 12-09-2009, 10:59 AM

To be boring maybe it is simply that Gandalf was not reported verbatim?

Since the mode of address in Rohan usually seems to refer the father's name - we are forever being told that Eomer and Eowyn are Eomund's children it seems possible that at some point they were so described and this referred to Theoden and Grima. Maybe by Eomer or simply by Hama or another guard. Just because the description wasn't used in the formal presentation it doesn't mean it wasn't known. I am sure our own dear queen often already knows the identities of those presented to her .

12-09-2009, 10:59 AM	#22
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	To be boring maybe it is simply that Gandalf was not reported verbatim? Since the mode of address in Rohan usually seems to refer the father's name - we are forever being told that Eomer and Eowyn are Eomund's children it seems possible that at some point they were so described and this referred to Theoden and Grima. Maybe by Eomer or simply by Hama or another guard. Just because the description wasn't used in the formal presentation it doesn't mean it wasn't known. I am sure our own dear queen often already knows the identities of those presented to her . __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace