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Old 03-11-2009, 02:54 AM   #10641
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Tuor, you've got it! The speaker is Feanor, defending the correct pronunciation of ţ in Quenya (and deriding that adopted by his stepmother Indis and her children); from The Shibboleth of Feanor, HoME XII. Probably rather esoteric...

Anyway, it's your turn.
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