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Old 03-16-2012, 08:42 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by alatar View Post
This unwashed reader (barely even schooled in American English) still finds the phrase grating, but now better understand that it may be Old English, as well as Tolkien's way of showing that Aragorn is a learned man from a noble family.
Yeah, this unwashed snagged that on my first reading in 1976, and my brain automatically inserts 'one' at the end to have it make sense to me. Always thought it was an editing miss myself.
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