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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 01:03:43 -0400, Stan Brown    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 13 Jun 2014 09:11:22 GMT, Sandman wrote:   
   >> Right, but my point was that you "knew" what he looks like since he is   
   >> called "dragon", and I have no doubt that Tolkien meant for Smaug look like   
   >> a "conventional" dragon, but if he had called the creature/species   
   >> something else to which you had no preconcieved notion about how it looks,   
   >> then Smaug's description might well have led you as much astray as the   
   >> description of the Nazgul mounts.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Tolkien gave us a picture of Smaug. I don't think he ever drew a   
   >picture of the Nazgûl mounts.   
   >   
   >Did he ever draw a picture of a Balrog, with or without its wig?   
      
   Was there still a tax on wig powder at that time?   
      
      
      
      
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