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Banshee of Camelot
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Switzerland
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![]() And I guess it's one of the things I love so much about Tolkien's language. Recently there was another discussion on style here As you can see I didn't even know the term contraction until now. ![]() The fact that the hobbits use these contractions makes their speech sound more modern, and that's what Krege (the translator of the new German translation) tried to achieve.
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