Timeline for How was Anarion killed?
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| Jul 29, 2021 at 6:36 | comment | added | ibid | "stone-cast" does look weird, but Hammond and Scull didn't correct it so I assume it's not a printers error. Just Tolkien using fun new words as he does. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 9:50 | vote | accept | Fingolfin | ||
| Dec 10, 2015 at 16:24 | comment | added | Yorik | Think of it like "gunshot/gun shot/gun-shot". My point is that as it is, it is not wrong. The reading of it as a compound noun is both correct and grammatical. It is also in keeping with the stylistic context. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 16:20 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @Yorik Ah, but the stone-cast wasn't what crushed his helm! It was the stone (or the stone-impact if you want a compound noun) which did that. I still think it's a typo :-) | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 16:17 | comment | added | Yorik | compound nouns are generative: you cannot list them all. Stone-cast refers to the casting of the stone, not the stone itself. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 15:03 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @Yorik I'm pretty sure it should be "the stone cast from Barad-dur" (i.e. the stone that was cast). I've never heard a compound noun "stone-cast", and the only definition I can find is this, which doesn't fit the sentence. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 14:58 | comment | added | Yorik | curious why the compound noun "stone-cast" was [sic]'d | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 14:17 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @maguirenumber6 Thanks, nice catch! I edited it in and credited you. | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 14:17 | history | edited | Rand al'Thor♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 10, 2015 at 14:01 | comment | added | maguirenumber6 | "...the helm of Anarion was crushed by the stone-cast from Barad-dur that slew him." (The Return of the King, Appendix A (p1019)) | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 13:14 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | @maguirenumber6 And what is the source for your statement on the source of the rock? :-) | |
| Dec 10, 2015 at 5:49 | comment | added | maguirenumber6 | It might be useful to add that the source of this rock was Barad-dur, possibly fired from a catapault or trebuchet during the Siege. | |
| Dec 5, 2015 at 3:25 | history | edited | Rand al'Thor♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 5, 2015 at 2:33 | history | answered | Rand al'Thor♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |