Re: Muta cum liquida in JRRT (was "Double stressed" words)
| From: | Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 29, 2003, 13:55 |
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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:
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>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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