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Old 11-07-2004, 06:45 PM   #9
Son of Númenor
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You already used that one. Also, and I don't want to get into a big semantics argument here, it seems more likely that, if the 'wings' were figurative, Tolkien would have said 'the wings', instead of the possessive 'its'.
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