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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 27 Sep 2022 04:08:35 -0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein   
    wrote:   
      
   >In alt.fan.tolkien Michael F. Stemper  wrote:   
   >> Due to the fact that Sm?agol and D?agol lived on the banks of the   
   >> Anduin, it is likely that they were Stoors.   
   >   
   >Or proto-Stoors..."akin to the fathers of the fathers of the   
   >Stoors",as Gandalf put it.   
      
   Or neither. Just related to (ancient) Stoors.   
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