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   From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 13/09/2022 00.05, Stan Brown wrote:   
   > On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:59:56 -0500, Michael F. Stemper wrote:   
   >> On 11/09/2022 19.57, Louis Epstein wrote:   
   >>> [quoted text muted]   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Should Aragorn be perceived as disagreeing in that he then   
   >>> passed a law barring Men from the Suza?   
   >>   
   >> Is this supposed to be a new spelling of "Shire" with which I   
   >> was previously unfamiliar?   
   >>   
   >   
   > Not a new spelling, an old one. :-) In Appendix F, II of The Lord of   
   > the Rings:   
      
   Okay. I've read that multiple times, although not recently. All that   
   I really remember is that Bilbo's name is "really" "Balba" or something   
   close to that.   
      
   > "The name of the Shire (Sûza) ..."   
   >   
   > My news client doesn't always handle accented letters correctly.   
   > Inside the parentheses should be four letters: S, u-circumflex, z, a.   
      
   Came through just fine here.   
      
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   Michael F. Stemper   
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