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FarFromHome
Valinor
Feb 24, 5:12pm
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Tuna is a mystery to me. Tolkien must have known of the confusion this would cause with the name for the fish... Well, I can say from personal experience that "tuna" as the name of a fish was pretty much unknown in England right up until at least the 1970s. I still remember that it was something new to me when I first went to the US in 1970. In England, the fish itself was called "tunny fish", but the canned tuna that we all know and love was unheard-of. Canned salmon was a popular staple of sandwiches and salads, but I remember my Scottish father-in-law visiting us some time in the early 1970s and being very puzzled by the unfamiliar taste of the tuna sandwiches I'd made!
They went in, and Sam shut the door.
But even as he did so, he heard suddenly,
deep and unstilled,
the sigh and murmur of the Sea upon the shores of Middle-earth.
From the unpublished Epilogue to the Lord of the Rings
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*Silmarillion Discussion: Chapter 5, "Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalie", Part 1 -- Who Goes and Who Stays*
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weaver
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Feb 21, 6:03am
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Weaver!
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sador
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Feb 21, 12:46pm
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Long journeys on a muddy boat
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elevorn
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Feb 21, 7:40pm
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Sea-longing- a personal Tolkien thing?
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noWizardme
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Feb 21, 10:58pm
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Maybe an early childhood experience
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FarFromHome
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Feb 22, 10:48am
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I agree
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elaen32
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Feb 22, 12:22pm
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About the gulls
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FarFromHome
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Feb 22, 2:31pm
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And welcome to the Reading Room!
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FarFromHome
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Feb 22, 3:15pm
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Thanks for the welcome
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elaen32
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Feb 22, 6:47pm
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Passage and memory, hope and regret, duty and love.
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squire
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Feb 22, 3:36pm
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Alas for the wailing of the gulls...
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FarFromHome
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Feb 22, 5:05pm
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'In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people for ever!'
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squire
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Feb 22, 8:08pm
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Home sweet home
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CuriousG
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Feb 23, 11:29pm
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Mmm, tuna...
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FarFromHome
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Feb 24, 5:12pm
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Quick answers - part II
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sador
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Feb 26, 2:56pm
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Sorry I'm so late to the party
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Finwe
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Feb 27, 7:38pm
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Good observation
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CuriousG
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Feb 27, 7:52pm
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Perhaps even
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Finwe
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Feb 28, 2:17pm
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a few thoughts
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telain
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Feb 27, 8:03pm
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