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Old 11-25-2010, 08:18 PM   #22
Galin
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
 
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Galin is a guest at the Prancing Pony.Galin is a guest at the Prancing Pony.
Well I would put it this way: raising the translator seems already part of an explanation concerning the doors -- in other words we seem to need to go there anyway, so perhaps just add Moria.

Again I'm all with you bringing The Lord of the Rings* to the fore, but that Moria might not be an anachronism is a bit different from inscribing this name on the door -- a name 'given without love' in any case -- though perhaps its meaning had become secondary or forgotten enough, as said.

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*have you seen my argument for the dark-haired Vanyar
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