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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:17:17 +0100, Troels Forchhammer   
    wrote:   
      
   >In message    
   >Wayne Brown  spoke these staves:   
   >>   
   >> In rec.arts.books.tolkien Troels Forchhammer   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>> December 2013   
   >>>   
   >>> William Turvil, _Daily Mail_, Tuesday, 3 December 2013, "His   
   >>> precious: The revolver JRR Tolkien carried with him in the   
   >>> trenches of WWI is going on display for the first time"   
   >[...]   
   >>> Right ... so ... apart from the inappropriateness of the use of   
   >>> "precious" in this context,   
   >[...]   
   >>   
   >> I don't see anything inappropriate about this story or the use of   
   >> the word "precious."   
   >   
   >You don't think that the comparison of Tolkien's relationship to his   
   >wartime revolver to Gollum's relationship to the One Ring, and of   
   >course of the revolver itself to the Ring is inappropriate? Using the   
   >word 'precious' in any Tolkienian context -- particularly when used as   
   >the noun object of a possessive term (i.e. "_his_ precious" or "_my_   
   >precious" or similar) -- necessarily refers to the Master Ring and to   
   >Gollum's possession of and by that Ring, and I find that reference   
   >highly inappropriate.   
      
   In what way is it supposed to have been his "precious"?   
      
      
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