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   It happens that Tahi formulated :   
   >>> Again, a passage, phrase or sentence from the   
   >>> books...   
   >>> 1. In LoTR?   
   >>> No. 2. The Hobbit? No.   
   >>> 3. In Unfinished Tales?   
   >>> Yes   
   >>> 4. Is the passage something that is spoken by a   
   >>>character?   
   >>> No.   
   >>> 5. Does it describe something?   
   >>> Yes.   
   >>> 6. Is the description connected to Beleriand?   
   >>> No.   
   >>>7. Is the description connected to Numenor?   
   >>> No.   
   >>> 8. Is the description connected to the Third Age?   
   >>> Yes.   
   >>> 9 About the Palantiri?   
   >>> No.   
   >>> 10. A description of a living creature?   
   >>> No.   
   >>> 11. About something geographic, like a river, a   
   >>> valley, a cave, a mountain?   
   >>> No.   
   >>> 12.Does it describe what is being seen by a person   
   >>> (or people)?   
   >>> Yes.   
   >>> 13. Seen by one person (as opposed to a group)?   
   >>> No.   
   >>> 14. Elendil's tomb?   
   >>> No.   
   >>> 15.  A description of an object created by one or more   
   >>> beings belonging to one or more of the Free Peoples (that   
   >>> is, elves, humans, hobbits, dwarves, or ents).   
   >>>   
   >>> Oooh.  This is going to depend on the definition of "an   
   >>> object", but I am going to say, Yes.   
   >>> 16.  Is at least one of the persons seeing what is being   
   >>> described from either the Rohirrim or the people that would   
   >>> become the Rohirrim?   
   >>> No.   
   >>> 17.  Is at least one of the persons a Gondorian?   
   >>> No.   
   >>> It is possible that the wrong intention may have been given by   
   >>> an answer.  I will say that I have given the most strict   
   >>> interpretation of the question, based on the passage in question   
   >>> rather than any interpolation of the situation outside the   
   >>> passage. To give a hint, one of your questions was very very warm...   
   >>   
   >> 18.  Is at least one of the persons a Northman?   
   >>   
   >> Given that even I am getting confused, I will expand on the answer.   
   >> Clarification of previous comment...   
   >> There is at least one or more persons present from either the Rohirrim or   
   >> the people that would become the Rohirrim, however the person or persons   
   >> seeing what is being described _is not_ from either the Rohirrim or the   
   >> people that would become the Rohirrim, nor Gondorian, nor Northmen.  There   
   >> are no Gondorians or Northmen present.   
   >   
   > OK I have found my copy of Unfinished tales!   
   > 19. Is it in Part 3 Chapter 4, The hunt for the ring?   
      
   No.   
      
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