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   From: david@trimboli.name   
      
   On 9/1/2011 8:09 PM, Joanne Corsano wrote:   
   > On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 08:24:47 -0700 (PDT), "Noel Q. von Schneiffel"   
   >   wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Aug 31, 5:13 am, sean_q  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> In fact, the Hobbits' short stature compared to normal Men   
   >>> (from whom they differentiated "far back in the Elder Days that   
   >>> are now lost and forgotten") was due to a mild but pandemic   
   >>> Vitamin D deficiency among them resulting in a chronic impairment   
   >>> of bone mineralization during their formative years. The Ent-draught   
   >>> taken by Merry and Pippin while still in late childhood partially   
   >>> reversed this trend as it was rich in Vitamin D2 having been filtered   
   >>> through UV-irradiated fungi in Fanghorn Forest.   
   >>   
   >> You have heard my theory about the hobbits' short stature, the Low   
   >> Moon Theory?   
   >>   
   >> http://tolkientruth.info/content/index.php/essays/bree-archit   
   cture-and-the-killing-moon   
   >   
   > In which you mention:   
   >   
   >    'We are also told that the Prancing pony had "two wings" (ibid.).'   
   >   
   > (... thus being less ambiguous than Balrogs)   
      
   Perhaps they're wings of shadow?   
      
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