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NancyBrooke
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Ooooooh ... I've no idea. Tom Bombadil?
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:05 am Post subject: |
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Tom Bombadil? |
Yeppers! Well done!
do.
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:56 am Post subject: |
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And speaking of the Witch King (oh, don't get me started) ... how many notches for kings might he have on his sword belt?
i.e. How many kings can he claim to have destroyed?
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Robbie
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:50 am Post subject: |
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Does this include the period before 1300 (When the geezer was only the The Lord of the Nazgûl and not the "Witch King of Angmar, Duke of all Masks Pointy")?
And by "destroyed" do you mean slain with bits of blood and body limbs everywhere (Arveleg I and Argeleb [ you couldn't make these names up, could you] [ oh, he probably did] ), or just "turned into not-a-king" (like Earnur who went off for a bit of a fisty coughs with with guy in the funny mask, and never came back).
Just checking for clarification.
Oh, not sure he wore a sword belt, either. I think he's got a secret pocket on the inside of his cloak 
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| Robbie wrote: | | Just checking for clarification. |
I'm looking for the most thorough (therefore highest), documentable body count.
| Robbie wrote: | | Oh, not sure he wore a sword belt, either. I think he's got a secret pocket on the inside of his cloak |
*snigger*
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Robbie
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Robbie wrote: | | Oh, not sure he wore a sword belt, either. I think he's got a secret pocket on the inside of his cloak |
*snigger* |
Even worse when you consider that it was a flaming sword he carried. I'd definitely not carry that in my belt, no matter how pointy my mask was.
And I'll guess 2 (metioned above). 3 if you count the one that scarpered, but that's not a documatable body count.
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: |
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ooo
oh -
whoops!
Dropped the ball on that one ...
Yes, my count tallies with yours, Robbie, so it's your go!
Whoo-hooo  A question from the Robster!  We haven't had one of those in a long time ... 
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Robbie
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:57 am Post subject: |
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Whoo-hooo A question from the Robster! We haven't had one of those in a long time ... |
Actually, you have...
But, anyhow.
How many days in a quantien?
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:24 am Post subject: |
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A quantien= a full year = a yén is 144 mortal years.
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Robbie
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Close, but not close....
Still does not say how many days and 144*356 is not close 
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| Robbie wrote: | Close, but not close....
Still does not say how many days and 144*356 is not close |
52.596 days
The full quote:
It seems clear that the Eldar in Middle-earth, who had, as Samwise remarked, more time at their disposal. reckoned in long periods. and the Quenya word yén, often translated 'year' (1, 491), really means 144 of our years. The Eldar preferred to reckon in sixes and twelves as far as possible. A 'day' of the sun they called ré and reckoned from sunset to sunset The yén contained 52.596 days. For ritual rather than practical purposes the Eldar observed a week or enquië of six days; and the yén contained 8,766 of these enquier, reckoned continuously throughout the period.
Appendix D, THE CALENDARS
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Robbie
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:10 am Post subject: |
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That's a yén, not the quantien.
As a clue, you won't find the answer in "The calendars" in Appendix D (I've found that quote too) or in Google <grin>.
It's in an almost identical quote, also in a chapter called "The Calendars" by the guvnor's son. Not that should tell you where to get hunting...
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Rhapsody
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:25 am Post subject: |
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Eum, you are confusing me now Robbie... the trivia should come from the book, but it isn't in the book?
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Rhapsody
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:54 am Post subject: |
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Thusly from the History of Middle-Earth, book twelve, The Peoples of Middle Earth, Chapter IV, The Calendars, page 126 (my book version):
It seems clear that the Eldar, who had, as Samwise remarks, more time at their disposal, reckoned in centuries, and the Quenya word yen, often translated 'year', really means a hundred of our years, sometimes called quantien or 'full year'. Now they observed - I do not know how or when: but the Eldar have many powers, and they had observed many centuries - that the century or quantien contained, exactly or exactly enough for practical purposes, 36524 days. They therefore divided it into 100 coranari * (sun-rounds or years) of 366 days. This would have given them 36600 days, or 76 too many; and they dealt with the inaccuracy, not as we do by inserting at intervals an additional day to make up for a deficit, but by ejecting a few days at stated times to reduce the surplus. Every four years they would have had (very nearly) three days too many, if they had done nothing to correct this. Their method of correction may seem complicated to us, but they favoured the numbers six and twelve, and they were chiefly concerned to make things work out properly at the end of their 'full year' or century.
Did I earn some brownie points?
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Robbie
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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That's the one.
The questions before (Witch king) didn't come from the book but from the extras, so I thought I'd throw another one in from left-wing - and one that isn't googleable within 10 seconds!
Well tracked. Your turn.
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