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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man
No. It's just that " Nine for Mortal Persons doomed to die" would not have scanned correctly and would have lost that slight alliterative feel ...
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Tut tut, my good
SpM. Poetic license would never be countenanced by as good a philologist as our Professor. His words always mean exactly what he intends them to mean. And clearly he never intended any woman to succumb to the Ring other than our G-lady or he would have showed us. No reading in of your own ideas now!