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**The Saucepan Man** · 01-22-2003, 05:55 PM

Excellent post, Diamond. Thanks. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Salo, 33, is a UW-Madison doctoral candidate in linguistics, but more importantly, at least to movie fans, he's probably the world's leading expert on Sindarin and Quenya, the Elvish languages author J.R.R. Tolkien invented as part of the extensive mythology underlying the trilogy.For nearly four years, Salo has served as the official translator to the Lord of the Rings movie writers. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>There are some who might accuse Mr Salo of having "sold out". I thought exactly the same about the inscription on Sting when I read it, though. The spider connection surely comes from Bilbo's encounter with the Mirkwood spiders, hence he names it Sting. I doubt that it was used by the Elves primarily for despatching spiders: "EEK! Galadriel, get Maegnus - there's another one in the bath ..." And yet it says that he researched the "probable mythological history of the sword". Perhaps he's not quite the Tolkienologist that he's made out to be.[ January 22, 2003: Message edited by: The Saucepan Man ][ January 22, 2003: Message edited by: The Saucepan Man ]

01-22-2003, 05:55 PM	#5
The Saucepan Man Corpus Cacophonous Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A green and pleasant land Posts: 8,390	Excellent post, Diamond. Thanks. <P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Salo, 33, is a UW-Madison doctoral candidate in linguistics, but more importantly, at least to movie fans, he's probably the world's leading expert on Sindarin and Quenya, the Elvish languages author J.R.R. Tolkien invented as part of the extensive mythology underlying the trilogy.<P>For nearly four years, Salo has served as the official translator to the Lord of the Rings movie writers. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>There are some who might accuse Mr Salo of having "sold out". <P>I thought exactly the same about the inscription on Sting when I read it, though. The spider connection surely comes from Bilbo's encounter with the Mirkwood spiders, hence he names it Sting. I doubt that it was used by the Elves primarily for despatching spiders: <P>"EEK! Galadriel, get Maegnus - there's another one in the bath ..." <P>And yet it says that he researched the "probable mythological history of the sword". Perhaps he's not quite the Tolkienologist that he's made out to be.<P>[ January 22, 2003: Message edited by: The Saucepan Man ]<p>[ January 22, 2003: Message edited by: The Saucepan Man ] __________________ Do you mind? I'm busy doing the fishstick. It's a very delicate state of mind!