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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   > On Jan 15, 7:49 pm, Troels Forchhammer    
   > disarmingly wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Ah, the fatal power for corruption that the Black Enemy instilled in   
   >> particular in gold (and which seems to have spilled over into all   
   >> later measures of wealth)  :-)   
   >   
   > a strangely affable reply, comparable to a westerly breeze   
   > effortlessly dispersing dark clouds of malice... but again, I wasn't   
   > pointing a dagger at anyone in particular.   
      
   I certainly didn't feel any points ;-)  and so I had no reason not to   
   be friendly.   
      
   When I look at some Tolkien scholars such as Verlyn Flieger and Tom   
   Shippey, who has been studying Tolkien's work for more than fifty   
   years, I see people who are both very intelligent and very   
   knowledgeable -- qualities that I admire -- and thus, if it does take a   
   special kind of imagination to do as they, it is a kind of imagination   
   that I would be honoured to be considered as having  :-)   
      
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   Troels Forchhammer    
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