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Tar-Palantir · 01-25-2003, 06:15 PM

stoopid! <P>Your math is perfect the dates in the books are conflicting. Samwise Gamgee birth by SR is 1380 which equals 2980 of the TA. Yet appendix B places his birth at 2983 of the TA. wassup with that?<P>Who can say which is more authoritative? Either he was 35 or 38 at the start of the mission...quest...thing. I trust the family tree (Appendix C) more when it comes to the birthdates of the <I>Holbytla</I>.

01-25-2003, 06:15 PM	#10
Tar-Palantir Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: napa valley, ca Posts: 496	stoopid! <P>Your math is perfect the dates in the books are conflicting. Samwise Gamgee birth by SR is 1380 which equals 2980 of the TA. Yet appendix B places his birth at 2983 of the TA. wassup with that?<P>Who can say which is more authoritative? Either he was 35 or 38 at the start of the mission...quest...thing. I trust the family tree (Appendix C) more when it comes to the birthdates of the <I>Holbytla</I>. __________________ History shows again and again How nature points up the folly of men Go, go, Godzilla!