The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe

don doggett · 05 Jun 2007, 16:47 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: kingwukong at yahoo.com (don doggett)
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:47:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) The Distant Suns of Gene Wolfe
In-Reply-To: <603765.2132.qm at web63906.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <205524.86620.qm at web32408.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

--- 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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