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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
10-31-2006, 02:43 AM
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Dread HorsemenTo be honest I've been thinking that a lot of my comments about that were rubbish for some time. Basically I misread the original post as simply a dream rather than a nightmare brought on by actual... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
07-06-2006, 09:24 AM
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Replies: 64
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Psycod analysisI think you'll find that the telephones and telegraph had been installed by sappers before the Lancashires went into the line and were a permanent fixture of the trench network. Carrier pigeons were... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
07-06-2006, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 64
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New Mythology?I don't doubt the probability that Tolkien senior had the dream described, or one very like it. I'm just trying to hedge my bets since we don't have his word for it. As for the dream describing real... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
07-06-2006, 05:14 AM
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Dream without escapeTolkien was an officer in an infantry, not a cavalry regiment. Fusilier regiments are named for the light muskets that they carried in an earlier era, which were not issued to cavalry. Although the... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
06-26-2006, 05:23 AM
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Remember regardlessIt should be borne in mind that when you remember the Somme you are remembering somewhere in the region of a million men of both sides who died in a sordid, muddy stalemate that dragged on for five... |
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