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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:16:15 -0500, Steve Morrison   
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   >> How could there have been two Gelmirs? Tolkien makes it very clear   
   >> that Elvish names are never, ever repeated;   
      
      
      
   > Where does Tolkien say that Elvish names are never repeated?   
      
   I believe that he says something about the repetition of Elvish names   
   in the Glorfindel essays published in /The Peoples of Middle-earth/,   
   but as I recall it he doesn't say that Elvish names are /never/   
   repeated, but that /Glorfindel/ is such an unusual name that that   
   particular name would never be repeated (or words to that effect).   
      
   Gelmir may be, in Tolkien's mind, a less unusual Elvish name that he,   
   if my memory is not faulty, would consider legitimate for repetition.   
      
   (I've got to get to a meeting, but I'll try to find the quotation when   
   I get back)   
      
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