Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!SR.KAUFMAN@MIT-SPEECH From: SR.KAUFMAN%MIT-SPEECH@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Tolkien's names Message-ID: <3073@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jul-83 16:44:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3073 Posted: Wed Jul 13 16:44:00 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jul-83 09:38:42 EDT Lines: 13 From: David H. KaufmanI've found my source - "Tolkien: A look behind the Lord of the Rings", a Ballantine book by Lin Carter (the edition I have in front of me says $1.50, but it has probably gone up). The quotation I remembered is from the first book of the Elder Edda, stanzas 9 - 15, where the names mentioned include 14 dwarves and Gandalf. The book also contains a discussion of plot elements that Tolkien borrowed (and usually altered) from various mythologies, and so forth. David