Re: new relay
| From: | Josh Roth <fuscian@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 30, 2001, 20:58 |
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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:
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>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....
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>Shreyas
Josh Roth
members.aol.com/fuscian/eloshtan.html
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