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   From: rimagen@toast.net   
      
   Troels Forchhammer wrote:   
      
   > In message    
   > Igenlode Wordsmith    
   > spoke these staves:   
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   >> Troels Forchhammer  wrote in message   
   >>    
   >> Locating the actual essay, I observe that the emphasised word in   
   >> question actually occurs outside the end of the quoted "unplaced   
   >> marginal note" - it may thus be Christopher Tolkien's editorial   
   >> comment, rather than his father's :-)   
   > You're right -- I hadn't noticed that, sorry. Well, probably Tolkien   
   > the son, then, rather than the father.   
      
   I noticed the position of the close quote mark for the first time when   
   looking up that footnote. I'm not at all sure now whether it's just a   
   typo or whether the statement about Saruman having no right to   
   the palantír was editorial; it certainly sounds more like JRRT's style to   
   me.   
      
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