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- From: keith@csc.liv.ac.uk (Keith Halewood)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
- Subject: Re: Lords and Ladies references and query
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 11:37:28 GMT
- References: <722058197snx@warren.demon.co.uk> <1992Nov18.223144.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>
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- In article <1992Nov18.223144.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>, morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Elmo) writes:
- > In article <722058197snx@warren.demon.co.uk>, leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton) writes:
- > > In article <1992Nov17.094528.13083@turing.ac.uk> robin@duich.turing.ac.uk (Robin Boswell) writes:
- > >>The first, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" sounds
- > >>familiar, but I can't identify the reference. Can anyone
- > >>help?
- > >
- > > It's another Tolkein one, from "The Road Goes Ever On and On". I haven't
- > > got the book handy, but one couplet goes something like ...
- > >
- > > "Behind the hidden roads that run
- > > East of the Moon, West of the Sun"
- >
- > Oh, please. It's an album by the group a-ha :-)
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- It's part of the last song on the way to Mithlond that Frodo was heard
- singing to himself:
-
- Still round the corner there may wait
- A new road or a secret gate.
- And though I oft' have passed them by,
- A day will come, at last, when I
- Shall take the hidden paths that run
- West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
-
- Keith
-