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————————————— Vinyar Tengwar 39 (July 1998) ———————————
which appears to say that such an act is possible, though forbidden and, even if done
for “good” purposes, criminal.
12
With this discussion of Melkor’s deceitful methods of winning entry through the
door of the sáma, it is interesting to compare the contemporary depiction of his failed
attempt to cozen, flatter, and entice Fëanor into allowing him to enter through the
(physical) door of Formenos, in the second-phase expansion of the Quenta Silmarillion
chapter “Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor” (MR:280 §54, also S:71-72).
13
This sentence originally ended: “they have ceased to be [— and?] have become mere
prudence”.
14
Based on the only previously published translation of the title Ósanwe-kenta as
‘Communication of Thought’ (MR:415), ósanwe and kenta have previously been
interpreted, wrongly, as meaning ‘thought’ and ‘communication’, respectively (e.g.
VT34:29-30).
15
It has previously been suggested (VT31:17, 30) that S. aníra is to be analyzed as an-
+ íra (and derived from the base ID- ‘heart, desire, wish’, LR:361); this still seems
possible, but Q. níra suggests an alternative analysis as a- + níra.