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- From: lerczak@acsu.buffalo.edu (Horse)
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- Subject: Re: References to Tolkien by Led Zeppelin
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 07:37:43 GMT
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- solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
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- >Tolkien did that on a few other occasions. According to "The Hobbit",
- >Bilbo invented the proverb "Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves",
- >which comes down to us as "Out of the frying pan and into the fire".
- >His father Bungo used to say "Third time pays for all", which (I
- >presume) shortened to the modern "Third time's the charm".
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- also, look at the substantially longer poem about the cat and the fiddle in
- the fellowship... i believe he even went so far as to say that this actually
- DID predate what we know today. (i could look it up, but it is somewhere in
- the same area as the poem itself)
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- >Andrew Solovay
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- Horse
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