[freeciv-data] Re: Re: Fixes and additions for nation files

Paul Zastoupil <[email protected]>:
> Arnor, Gondor, they were all the same before the death of Elendil.  But
> do you undestand my point about Edain -> Numenoreans -> Dunedan?

Hm.  The Encyclopedia of Arda half-agrees with you.  It implies that the
use of Dûnedain specifically for the Men of Arnor was a Third Age thing.

> > (I'm one of *those* Tolkien fans,  Taught myself to write Feanorian and
> > actually recognized some spoken Elvish in the LOT movie -- when I wasn't
> > being too distracted by Liv Tyler's lips, that is.)
> 
> I did too, and I wasn't even distracted ;)  What did distract me was how
> many times she showed up. 

I have to tell you that I think giving Arwen more screen time was one of
Peter Jackson's good calls.  Substituting her for Gildor Inglorion at the
Fords of Bruinen was both clever and effective, IMO.

I think I'd feel the same way even if I didn't think Liv Tyler is one
of the sexiest women living. 

>                            I actually wrote a poem in Quenya once... If
> I continue this paragraph I will likely lower my social standing a bit...

Eh?  Being obsessive about Tolkien trivia is in the finest old hacker 
tradition -- and I say that wearing my anthropologist hat, not just 
because I fit the description myself. :-)
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>