14th June 2007, 10:07 PM
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| Re: The Tolkien Quoting Trivia
12 mile cousin. Quote:
In the Shire etiquette, at the date of the Party,'expectation of receiving' was linited to second cousins or nearer kin, and to residence within 12 miles.*
*(footnote) Hence the Hobbit expression 'a twelve-mile cousin' for a person who stickled for the law, and recognised no obligations beyond its precise interpretation .....
| Letters: 214: To A.C. Nunn (draft) |
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