XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk   
   From: mimus99@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:57:23 -0700, Greg Goss wrote:   
      
   > djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Um, isn't the conceit here that Tolkien wrote it wrong first and the   
   >>> version we have is Squigle's suggestion?   
   >>   
   >>A thoroughly ridiculous conceit, though, which I see no reason to   
   >>go along with.   
   >   
   > Right.  I took it as humour, to answer the "why not use eagles"   
   > question that keeps coming up.   
      
   You can do some pretty interesting Freudian "analysis" coupling the   
   Barad-Dur and the Sammath Naur.   
      
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