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Re: Muta cum liquida in JRRT (was "Double stressed" words)

From:Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...>
Date:Friday, August 29, 2003, 13:55
At 12:19 29/08/03, Pavel Iosad wrote:

>However, evidence from verse can be quite confusing. Thus, in _The Lay >of Leithian_, _Nargothrond_ seems to be regularly stressed on the first >and third syllables rather than on the second one as App. E suggests. >But cf. verses 2107-2110: > >Come, tell me true, O Morgoth's thralls, >what then in Elfinesse befalls? >What of Nargothrond? Who reigneth there? >Into that realm did your feet dare?
I've seen the films too much, I think. About five minutes after I read this I found the following couplet running through my head: What of Nargothrond? Who reigneth there? And hath he silly flowing hair? Ian

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