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Re: new relay

From:Josh Roth <fuscian@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 30, 2001, 20:58
In a message dated 5/30/01 4:02:31 PM, nsampat@IX.NETCOM.COM writes:

>Ok. List of participants new since my last mail: > >Nik Taylor - Uatakassí >Muke Tever - Hadwan >Steg Belsky - Rokbeigalmki >Aidan Grey >H. S. Teoh >Irina Rempt - Valdyan >D. Tse - OrCo >John Roth - Eloshtan
very close.. I'm Josh Roth. :-) <snip rest of list>
>On the text - I've taken a fairly not-obscure-at-all bit of the >Silmarillion, partly because I want to use ornate Nrit verb tenses that >it >would allow me to do. It's prose, but can be broken up into bits of >prose-poem for convenience; in the character of the text as a whole, it's >very rhythmic and deliberate and can be easily divided. > >For those who want to avoid Tolkien, I can only suggest that you be late >in >the translation, and hope that it's far enough changed that your translation >won't be colored. I suppose I'll have to just pretend that I don't know >the >English, being the endpoints of the relay and all that.
I agree with John Cowan... it would be better if the text were an original one. If you don't want to write it (I know I wouldn't!), I'm sure there's someone who would. I myself have never read Tolkien before but a lot of people on this list have and might recognize the text you picked.
>How does one go about ordering the players, precisely? Do we simply place >people at random, or what?
How about in whatever order people first responded, unless someone specifically asks for another spot? I think that's how we did it in the past....
>--- >Shreyas
Josh Roth members.aol.com/fuscian/eloshtan.html

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