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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   Wayne Brown  spoke these staves:   
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   > In rec.arts.books.tolkien Troels Forchhammer   
   >  wrote:   
   >> December 2013   
   >>   
   >> William Turvil, _Daily Mail_, Tuesday, 3 December 2013, "His   
   >> precious: The revolver JRR Tolkien carried with him in the   
   >> trenches of WWI is going on display for the first time"   
   [...]   
   >> Right ... so ... apart from the inappropriateness of the use of   
   >> "precious" in this context,   
   [...]   
   >   
   > I don't see anything inappropriate about this story or the use of   
   > the word "precious."   
      
   You don't think that the comparison of Tolkien's relationship to his   
   wartime revolver to Gollum's relationship to the One Ring, and of   
   course of the revolver itself to the Ring is inappropriate? Using the   
   word 'precious' in any Tolkienian context -- particularly when used as   
   the noun object of a possessive term (i.e. "_his_ precious" or "_my_   
   precious" or similar) -- necessarily refers to the Master Ring and to   
   Gollum's possession of and by that Ring, and I find that reference   
   highly inappropriate.   
      
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