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- From: dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: Hobbits, again
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 18:55:07 -0500
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- References: <1j4dvaINNjil@galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl> <1993Jan15.175944.6937@mcs.kent.edu> <1993Jan15.221104.14089@leland.Stanford.EDU> <C17vDD.CJJ@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
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- In article <C17vDD.CJJ@cck.coventry.ac.uk> mjw@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Alien) writes:
- >BTW thanks for all the stuff about Saxons and modern English! I thought everyone
- >knew that English comes from Saxon (as well as Latin and Norman French) but
- >if that was JRRT's influence then that's another feather to his cap.
- > Point to consider tho': lots of Robin Hood type films make him a Saxon
- > hero opposed to Norman tyranny ,so it's obvious that the saxon's identity
- > was well known at least by the 40's
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- And don't forget _Ivanhoe_, about a Saxon noble-man, which was printed
- in the early 19th century. (And had Robin Hood in it as well.) So
- I don't think we can argue that people forgot that the Saxons ruled
- England before the Normans.
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