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11-24-2002, 08:33 PM | #1 |
Shade of Carn Dûm
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I was reading in this video game magazine a letter to the editor. Every issue they reveiw games and this time it was a tolkien game. In the reveiw, they called the sword Clamdring instead of Glamdring.
Of course, somone wrote in next issue and called them morons and told em it was glamdring. The editor responded that they contacted tolkein "heirs" and that glamdring was a misprint in the hobbit, the swords real name being Clamdrng. Can somone tell me if this is true or false, and why they misspelled it the whole book if it is true. [ November 24, 2002: Message edited by: Morgoth Bauglir ] |
11-24-2002, 09:58 PM | #2 |
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LoL! Some misprint! Every single time the name was spelled? I think that's just a cover-up. I mean, I'm no Tolkien scholar, but it seems a little unlikely that it would be misspelled EVERY time in EVERY edition.
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11-24-2002, 10:47 PM | #3 |
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Tolkien didn't want to make a fuss.
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11-24-2002, 10:49 PM | #4 |
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It was definately Glamdring. This sword was called Orcist also, one of the Sindarin words for Orc is Glam. There is no other explanation than the magizine didn't want to correct their lack of knowledge (better known as stupidity [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img])
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11-25-2002, 01:30 AM | #5 |
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hmm.... well, it must have been misspelled in LOTR, too! I bet they'll get a much bigger response for saying that than they did at first! A misprint indeed!
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11-25-2002, 01:40 AM | #6 |
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Clamdring - eesh, I'm glad it *wasn't* the original name (I'm getting a picture of Gandalf threatening some malefactor with a big sharpened clamshell. "I am a servant of the Secret Sauce, Wielder of the Flame of Clambakes..." OK, enough).
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11-25-2002, 02:27 AM | #7 |
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Orcrist was Thorin's sword...
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11-25-2002, 02:30 AM | #8 | |
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11-25-2002, 03:17 AM | #9 |
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Glam means "noise," or in this case "foe." Gandalf (or the narrator, I forger) translates it as "Foe Hammer."
Orcrist means "Goblin Cleaver." Biter and Beater, they aren't the same.
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11-25-2002, 08:18 AM | #10 | |
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It was Elrond.
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11-25-2002, 03:46 PM | #11 |
Shade of Carn Dûm
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thanks for clearing that up....those fools will get a letter from me
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11-25-2002, 04:29 PM | #12 |
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My bad, Legalos.
Morgoth, don't. It was a joke. They will make fun of you if you do.
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11-27-2002, 06:05 AM | #13 |
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Everytime there's a press article on Tolkien's works there is a misprint. I tend to ignore them and remind myself why I don't read newspapers.
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11-29-2002, 02:51 PM | #14 |
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You wonder how writers these days (no, I do NOT mean all writers, just MOST, and especially journalists) got to be writers? I don't know about you guys, but my parents raised me on a healthy dose of reading everyday, and you'd think that those who make literature/language their profession would at least ATTEMPT to look up their resources and be well-read. Alas for our society and its dumbing-down spiral. Clamdring, I ask you!
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11-29-2002, 03:03 PM | #15 |
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It's a video game magazine, not a book magazine.
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