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  1. Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!dialup-slip-1-14.gw.umn.edu!forb0004
  3. From: forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis )
  4. Subject: Re: Elven Anatomy
  5. Message-ID: <forb0004.180.725935100@student.tc.umn.edu>
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  9. Organization: University of Minnesota
  10. References: <92366.102452IO10407@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <1993Jan1.064511.27715@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  11. Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:38:20 GMT
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  14. In article <1993Jan1.064511.27715@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> mozart@coos.dartmouth.edu (Sting) writes:
  15. >Path: news.cis.umn.edu!umn.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!dartvax!coos.dartmouth.edu!mozart
  16. >From: mozart@coos.dartmouth.edu (Sting)
  17. >Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
  18. >Subject: Re: Elven Anatomy
  19. >Message-ID: <1993Jan1.064511.27715@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  20. >Date: 1 Jan 93 06:45:11 GMT
  21. >References: <92366.102452IO10407@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
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  23. >Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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  25. >In <92366.102452IO10407@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> ROB <IO10407@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
  26. >
  27. >>  This past weekend a friend and I had an argument over whether or not
  28. >>Tolkien's Eldar had pointed ears or not
  29. >
  30. >
  31. >I have noticed that in Tolkien's glossary of the elven language (which occurs
  32. >in the Silmarillion, as well as various further works by other authors), the
  33. >words for "ear" and "leaf" are closely related in Elven, which would suggest
  34. >that they probably had something of a leaf-shaped ear.
  35. >
  36.  
  37. Which leaf shape? 
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  40. Eric Forbis      forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu
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