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Old 11-16-2016, 07:19 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Kuruharan View Post
unless the records Bilbo worked from were saved archives from Arnor, which I suppose is possible.
I always assumed that this would be the solution. It works perfectly, doesn't it? Elrond kept other artefacts of Nśmenor in Rivendell, and "Translations from the Elvish" doesn't necessarily mean "Translations of works written by Elves", just "Translations of works written in an Elvish language", which the Nśmenórean literature in Arnor presumably would have been.
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