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Originally Posted by Findegil
I understand why 'trunk' is not good in line 696, but couldn't we use 'beech' from line 696 in line 699?
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I personally would rather not. Why loose the effect of the full alliteration when not necessary? It could be also argued that the fact of the tree being a beech was significant due to the fact that the death originally occurred in
Doriath, where beeches seem to have been held in high esteem, if not revered. Perhaps it is even so suggestive of Doriath that it
needs to go?