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William Cloud Hicklin · 03-01-2014, 08:41 PM

Well, I'll try; but I expect CT will place far more weight on the opinions of Hammond, Scull and Anderson than on mine! I am after all a mere 'pen-friend', not a 'scholar.'

Besides, there is the explicit passage in PME where Tolkien tells us that the Third Kindred, like the Second, was generally dark-haired ("generally" is mine).

03-01-2014, 08:41 PM	#82
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Well, I'll try; but I expect CT will place far more weight on the opinions of Hammond, Scull and Anderson than on mine! I am after all a mere 'pen-friend', not a 'scholar.' Besides, there is the explicit passage in PME where Tolkien tells us that the Third Kindred, like the Second, was generally dark-haired ("generally" is mine). __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.