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Re: new relay

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 30, 2001, 23:22
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andreas Johansson wrote:

>O'Connell James wrote: >>Unfortunately, I doubt you could find a passage of the >>Silmarillion that I do not know :) >>What aout translating one of the more obscure pieces >>of Elvish. Like Cirion's Oath for example, which I >>think is in the Unfinished Tales. > >I better be at the end of the line then. Cirion's Oath would have to be very >mangled if I weren't to recognize it, and I'm not exactly the only (nor the >worst) Elivsh freak on this list.
Perhaps Tolkien _wouldn't_ be a just text to use. Thus far, all the texts given have been total surprises until the very end of the game. Though I like the idea of using a known text; this sort of game works best if the originator of the game writes the text for translation. Padraic.
> > Andreas