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   From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 2018-02-14 21:21, Stan Brown wrote:   
   > On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 11:06:21 -0600, Michael F. Stemper wrote:   
      
   >>    But in the wild lands beyond Bree there were mysterious wanderers. The   
   >>    Bree-folk called them Rangers, and knew nothing of their origin. They   
   >>    were taller and darker than the Men of Bree and were believed to have   
   >>    strange powers of sight and hearing, and to understand the languages of   
   >>    beasts and birds.   
   >>   
   >> The Rangers are described as being "darker than the Men of Bree".   
   >   
   > I think that refers to hair and eyes, not skin tone. It's dark as   
   > opposed to fair, not dark as opposed to white.   
      
   Would you be willing to explain your reasoning? Is this just a case of   
   British English versus American English? Because I've never heard anyone   
   say "so-and-so is dark/fair/white" to mean "so-and-so has dark/fair/   
   white hair".   
      
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