Werde Spinner
Rohan
Oct 29 2013, 2:47pm
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Uh, no, I'm not fond of the idea.
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And if the dude insults Tolkien's wonderful nomenclature, I can't even begin to imagine what he'd do to Middle-earth... Oh, and... *Harry Potter people, look away now* ... I honestly wasn't always blown away by J. K. Rowling's names for things. After seeing too many English words smashed together awkwardly or with their heads and tails (prefixes and suffixes) chopped off, I'd prefer something a bit more... sensible. Granted, some of the words *sounded * cool. I liked 'disapparate', but I could never figure out whether it meant to disappear or to reappear, or if it could be applied to both. Prefixes should not be so confusing. Also, her 'spells' made me cringe. Only three were legitimate Latin (Ex(s)pecto Patronum, Levicorpus, and Liberacorpus, and even the pedant in me was insisting the last two should be two words); granted, more legitimate Latin was used in the movies (Vulnera Sanentur, etc.). I still blame her for the fact that I look up at the night sky and say, "Oh, look, there's Scorpius," only to then smack my forehead and correct myself to, "Scorpio." However, if this dude quoted in the interview agrees that Middle-earth is not suitable for a theme park, I'll overlook whatever insults he tosses in our direction.
"I had forgotten that. It is hard to be sure of anything among so many marvels. The world is all grown strange. Elf and Dwarf in company walk in our daily fields; and folk speak with the Lady of the Wood and yet live; and the Sword comes back to war that was broken in the long ages ere the fathers of our fathers rode into the Mark! How shall a man judge what to do in such times?" "As he ever has judged. Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house."
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