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Hobbit
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Queer things you hear....
In Fellowship chapter 2 There is a line that says "there were rumors of beasts more terrible than this but they had no name"
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01-12-2007, 10:29 PM
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Elf Lord
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01-13-2007, 01:27 PM
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Probably (Is that how you spell that?) he ment what was said.
Terrable beasts with no names sounds like terrable beasts with no names to me. But then again, I had no problems understanding the plot and setting of the matrix.
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01-13-2007, 05:42 PM
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Yeah, I mean, what do you want us to do, name them for you?
 
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01-15-2007, 02:38 AM
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01-17-2007, 01:52 PM
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Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008
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Gwai and Rian, for shame!
I'm actually very interested in these little tidbits in LotR, and I do wonder about them (remember the talking Fox in FotR?), but I'm almost tempted to say that they are dead-end creations that he just liked and left in there. And I like them there, so don't anyone start accusing me of thinking Tolkien's editing bad, that wasn't my point.
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01-18-2007, 01:47 PM
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Peer of the realm of Sanguine
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LOL, how about Bert & Ernie? Anyway, getting to the question... to put the true quote into context: "There were rumours of strange things happening in the world outside; and as Gandalf had not at that time appeared or sent any message for several years, Frodo gathered all the news he could...Frodo often met strange dwarves of far countries, seeking refuge in the West. They were troubled, and some spoke in whispers of the Enemy and of the Land of Mordor... Orcs were multiplying again in the mountains. Trolls were abroad, no longer dull-witted, but cunning and armed with dreadful weapons. And there were murmured hints of creatures more terrible than all these, but they had no name. Whether the creatures did exist in fact or rumor is unclear. What is clear is that they had no name.
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