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Old 02-20-2012, 03:06 PM   #11
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Good points Mith & Galadriel.

But also, I think no pasaran! means more or less the same: "you are not getting through" (no passing). And the idea in the trenches must have been more or less the same as well.

Slogans like this seem to serve many purposes from the moral boosting of your own side to the intimidation of the enemy (or to the stating of a "fact"). But surely Tolien was familiar with it.

Nice spotting Rune!
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