Re: Digest of messages 36.53-36.58 (fwd)

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:

> From: "Sylvia Sotomayor"
>
> > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > > One ring to rule them all, one ring to to find them
> > > One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
> > > in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
>
> I'll give this a try, but a question, not having read the trilogy. Is Mordor
> a place name or a person? This affects my translation.
Place name.  A valley in a very geologically unlikely configuration of
mountains.

And it is absolutely and completely required for any conlanger to read the
trilogy.  You needn't like it (I found it more boring than his scholarly
writings), but you must read it.



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