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Old 05-12-2010, 12:03 PM   #23
Aiwendil
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This is most amusing.

I tried:
Quote:
There was Iluvatar, the All-father, and he made first the Ainur, the holy ones, who were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.
Result:
Quote:
I am the Earth, God, it's just Ainur and the saints who from their ideas, do not do anything.
Those lousy Ainur (and saints), why don't they ever do anything with their ideas?

Curiously, the first iteration (to Afrikaans and back to English) transformed 'Iluvatar' into 'Eru Iluvatar'. So apparently the dictionaries include the names of some Tolkien characters.
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