Tolkien vocabulary I (serious)

[Rimbaud]

[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] It's almost a disappointment to give in...but reading, I found this, which I think conclusively tilts your way...

...but Turgon shut his ear to any word of the woes without, and vowed to march never at the side of any son of Feanor; and his people he forbade ever to pass the leaguer of the hills.

I can only reconcile this through a potential use of metaphor; on a literal reading this leaguer does not mean either "military camp" or "siege". I would perhaps, were the point more than mere semantics, argue that that is a metaphor but my mind leans the same way in this as yours so I shall refrain...

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[ July 23, 2002: Message edited by: Stephanos ]