Board Thread:Lore Texts/@comment-33763020-20180130195747/@comment-26149161-20180131200540

Barangolo wrote: Err, no. My above message did not reply to your revision, mind you ;), which I am reading now. And so the game of back-and-forth revisions starts..

The following of your revisions I cannot agree with:

1. I wrote in my comments the hearty friendship that evolved between them. Hardly proper to call your friend a rat, I would omit that or change it to raskal or something of the kind.

2. The wife is not ill: she does not want to see her adult husband getting drunk because the archeologist has much better tales and the dwarf cannot keep up with it, gets drunk and makes a mess. In a household a woman usually makes sure to keep her husband's juvenile behaviour in check, is what I wanted to achieve with that point.

3. The point of actually SELLING something may be your perception of dwarf mentality, but they are not a deceiving kind, honour stands much higher in their lives. The pickaxe I wrote was the prize to be won on fairplay, not to be sold as a business transaction after being beaten at a game. Again, I think the fact that we talk about friends here makes this clear.

4. Any reason why Bromdin would not go for a dwarfish name?..

1. That's true. Changed to Rascal.

2. I understand :). To "take ill" is a phrase Tolkien used, and it means to look unkindly on/be unhappy about something.

3. Alright. Changed to "Perhaps I can acquire you a Dwarf-forged pick"

4. Well, Dwarvish names for Durin's Folk are usually Norse in style. I chose one that fits better with the ones we know in the book. Truth be told, though, I didn't even see the father-name in the original :P

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