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William Cloud Hicklin · 04-25-2007, 02:17 PM

Oh-as to Boney's height.

The source of the confusion lies in the fact that early reports that didn't use the metric system (official but not necessarily widespread at the time) used the old royal French foot- which was slightly longer than the English foot. English translations tended not notice this or make the conversion, giving an erroneously small figure. Boney was in fact 1.7 meters tall, or 5'6."

04-25-2007, 02:17 PM	#32
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Oh-as to Boney's height. The source of the confusion lies in the fact that early reports that didn't use the metric system (official but not necessarily widespread at the time) used the old royal French foot- which was slightly longer than the English foot. English translations tended not notice this or make the conversion, giving an erroneously small figure. Boney was in fact 1.7 meters tall, or 5'6."