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08-08-2021, 11:37 AM | #1 |
Itinerant Songster
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: The Edge of Faerie
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The Last Word
"He's gone at last! And I'm glad for one I never liked him. He was artful. Too nimble, you might say."
So Nokes gets the last word. I had thought that it was also that way in 'Leaf By Niggle,' but no, there is a later section after Tompkins, Perkins, and Atkins have their say: the Two Voices have the last word. So why do you suppose Tolkien gives the last word to Nokes? |
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There are some people who get to briefly touch the extraordinary in life, but, alas!, they are too busy with the mundane to notice.
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