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William Cloud Hicklin · 08-22-2007, 11:03 AM

[quote}The medieval feeling of LotR means that there is a form that was once used and is now considered old-fashioned, if not obsolete - "Ihr"[/quote]

And therefore perfectly useful in attemting to get Tolkien's English across. It's certainly not beyond moderately literate Germans, since both Goethe and Wagner used it- not to mention of course Luther's Bible.

08-22-2007, 11:03 AM	#31
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	[quote}The medieval feeling of LotR means that there is a form that was once used and is now considered old-fashioned, if not obsolete - "Ihr"[/quote] And therefore perfectly useful in attemting to get Tolkien's English across. It's certainly not beyond moderately literate Germans, since both Goethe and Wagner used it- not to mention of course Luther's Bible. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.