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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   Sandman  spoke these staves:   
   >   
   > In article ,   
   >  Stan Brown  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:52:08 +0200, Troels Forchhammer wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Shaun wonders what happened to the 'great debates'   
   [...]   
   >>   
   >> /Letters/ is what happened to several of those controversies, and   
   >> HoME is what happened to the rest. :-)   
   >   
   > Apart from, of course, Balrog wings :-D   
      
   And seemingly English professors happened to that most infamous of   
   debates ;-)  (I've seen a few professors of English argue that the   
   passage in question cannot, in proper English, imply any kind of actual   
   wings -- whether of flesh and blood or some immaterial shadow-stuff.)   
      
   Seriuosly, though, it seems that everybody eventually just got fed up   
   with that discussion (I've been told that it had been going on at least   
   since the eighties, though it obviously didn't hit the on-line fora   
   until much later).   
      
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