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Old 10-04-2006, 06:05 AM   #302
narfforc
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narfforc has been trapped in the Barrow!
One can only add that Tolkien the Philologist would have known that the word LIKE, can only mean :

A. Resembling

B. Similar to

C. In the characteristic of.

D. In the manner of.

If we are wrong, why did Tolkien use that word.
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