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Aiwendil · 11-14-2003, 01:07 PM

Actually, that's not quite what I meant in my proposal 2.

Your revision is good though, and is a valid alternative. Call it 2.5, for it is somewhere between my 2 and 3.

What I meant was that we retain the anger of the Orcs, etc., and merely alter the specific information Maeglin gives them: he no longer tells them "of all the fashion of that plain and city . . .", only its location. But the subsequent anger of the Orcs would then depend on Maeglin's exact words being interpretable as a boast. Hence my reservation that "textual alterations needed might prove a bit heavier than we would like".

If we are going to lose all of that little altercation, as you suggest, then I'm very tempted to go with my proposal 4, leaving room for any ToY implications.

11-14-2003, 01:07 PM	#36
Aiwendil Late Istar Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,224	Actually, that's not quite what I meant in my proposal 2. Your revision is good though, and is a valid alternative. Call it 2.5, for it is somewhere between my 2 and 3. What I meant was that we retain the anger of the Orcs, etc., and merely alter the specific information Maeglin gives them: he no longer tells them "of all the fashion of that plain and city . . .", only its location. But the subsequent anger of the Orcs would then depend on Maeglin's exact words being interpretable as a boast. Hence my reservation that "textual alterations needed might prove a bit heavier than we would like". If we are going to lose all of that little altercation, as you suggest, then I'm very tempted to go with my proposal 4, leaving room for any ToY implications.