Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-14.100.136.186-20170514111503/@comment-26149161-20170520105055

That's just Tolkien's writing style. He does that quite a bit at different times, using indefinite phrases to show definite ones. In any case, it clearly replaced the other notions about Alatar and Pallando.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë) 10:50, May 20, 2017 (UTC)