(urth) The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe

[don doggett]

--- Recursive Loop <recursive_loop at yahoo.com> wrote:

 until TSR got a
> "cease and desist" order. Either Tolkien or his
> estate did the same thing, so "hobbits" in early
> editions became "halflings" in later editions,
> even though we all knew what they were...

Well, at the risk of being labelled a nitpick, they
are called halflings by the Gondorians. But it appears
that it's a "real" word that can't be copyrighted.

nerdily yours

Don

The Evangelists: a Lesser Apocrypha                                                                        http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=178109961


 
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