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Old 01-29-2001, 06:56 AM   #22
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A reply to sect.4

I vote for leeaving the noldo out. It seems in my mind only to detract from the intensity of the story [and makes the noldo ] not Finwe the first Elda , slain in Valinor. Which is part of the revised prohecy of Mandos [Mirel was the first to die, Finwe the first to be slain].

as to posting them here I am all for it , I know that legal questions were raised [by BW if I recall , so it has to be cleared w/ him first.] I agree though that the emailing option is cumbersome. This is why Saulotus wanted to find aa newsgroup that could be members only to post this work.

Re; the bracket business, It was a system discussed in the long post of this thread of 1/26/01 --2:58am 'Meshing and such&quot;,I have pasted it below.
It's prime purpose is so thst others of the team and those veiwing our work from w/out will be able to see exactly which book a given section/phrase etc. came from . that w/ a few notes at the end should be all we need except in the most complex questions . Obviously these would not need to be there for any edition created for our private reading pleasure . Please note that the base text is not given any brackests ! below is the excerpt


&quot;6-b***** We could use a system of bracketing that would tell
us which phrase or sentence or word came from what source , e.g.
&lt;Finwe said no&gt;* would indicate-77
{ Finwe said no} would indicate- IV
[Finwe said no] would indicate- V etc.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (Finwe said no) would idicate - I
Finwe said no would indicate base text- X -no brackets.


These would run throughout our edited copies of the chapters/sections and
would tell us [or anyone ] at aglance just where a given line came from.
7- I think this is the main thing missing from your versions Saulotus, a
quick * * * * *
and easy way of seeing what and from whence are your changes. I propose
putting the corresponding paragraph #'s of the source of each word, phrase
, sentence par graph , etc. in the margin this way we would be spared
choopping the text up w/ clumsy words. &quot;
end quote.

I am off to work on #2.


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