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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Aug 19 2014, 9:16pm
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Ok Otaku, I gives up. The point is ?? //
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“Uva uvam vivendo varia fit."
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Rembrethil
Tol Eressea
Aug 19 2014, 9:22pm
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But what about the third book?
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Just which king returned?
Call me Rem, and remember, not all who ramble are lost...Uh...where was I?
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Darkstone
Immortal
Aug 19 2014, 9:34pm
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man pierced with many black-feathered arrows, must be in want of a funeral."
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Aug 20 2014, 12:16am
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Ok Otaku, I gives up. The point is ??
Prof. Tolkien did not always adhere to common convention. Satisfied?
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Aug 20 2014, 12:32am
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But I do appreciate your having patience for those of us of lesser perspicacity.
Thank you.
Satisfied..
“Uva uvam vivendo varia fit."
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Darkstone
Immortal
Aug 20 2014, 6:30pm
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The most important battle in British history...
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...was fought in Battle, Sussex, near Battle Abbey, mainly on Senlac Hill.
So they named it The Battle of Hastings, after a town seven miles away.
Misnamed battles (such as, say, the Battle of Bunker Hill, which wasn't) are quite common in history. I kinda think Tolkien sometimes played with that notion. (Like with The Last Alliance, which wasn't.)
So I won't be surprised at all if the Battle of Five Armies isn't.
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man pierced with many black-feathered arrows, must be in want of a funeral."
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dormouse
Half-elven
Aug 20 2014, 6:33pm
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.... very near where I live, and yes, there's quite an art to misnaming battles. If they'd all been correctly named, think how much fun generations of historians and archaeologists would have missed out on, in not having to work out where they really happened!
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Rembrethil
Tol Eressea
Aug 22 2014, 2:49pm
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The Next-to-Last-Alliance just doesn't have the same ring to it...
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And The-Battle-of-Erebor-where-arguably-five-or-more-armies-duke-it-out-for-dragon's-gold wouldn't fit on any promotional material.
Call me Rem, and remember, not all who ramble are lost...Uh...where was I?
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Rickster
Rohan
Aug 25 2014, 6:58pm
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there were the pirates too and an elf and a Dwarf ...
and they counted for more than one
there were the hobbit(e)s
and the Nasgul and his king
There were so many more there...
There was the Wizzard-reborn Gandalf the White
and the would be King / ranger
We only missed the trolls.. which was sad..as Trolls vs the Dead armywould have been amazing
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