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Subject: Tolkien's names
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Date: Wed, 13-Jul-83 16:44:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 13 16:44:00 1983
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From:  David H. Kaufman 


I'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