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Old 09-03-2005, 01:14 PM   #64
Holbytlass
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Originally Posted by THE Ka
You don't have to be too elaborate with this, it could be just a simple nursery ryme that makes you feel like your in middle earth. ~Musical Ka~
The most obvious for me is "Hey Diddle, Diddle" when Tolkien cleverly makes it much longer and more adult-ish and puts in that line "Only a few words of it are now, as a rule, remembered". How brilliant to tie in 'fantasy-history' and real-present.
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