Originally posted by AslanC
Thanks Chris.
I bring in Durin VII based on a Michael Martinez article that started this whole affair for me.
In "Tolkienite" circles Michael Martinez has got a bit of a mixed reputation. He does write some really good, thought provoking things, but at other times you wonder what he was thinking. This is one of them (for me, at least).
You see, the passages he's referring to in The Peoples of Middle Earth (which indicate that Durin VII is Thorin III's son) are from early drafts of Appendix A. The geneology chart for the lords of the house of Durin was amended before publication with a dotted line between Thorin III and Durin VII, suggesting the span of some generations rather than direct primogeniture.
It's kind of like saying that Aragorn is a hobbit, because in the early drafts of the Lord of the Rings he was a Hobbit named Trotter.
OK, so it's not really that bad, but you can see my point hopefully. Not that you need to change your game or anything just because I've got a problem with your history; I'm not in your game, after all, and you don't have to listen to me complain about it every week.
Just a little FYI.
-Chris Landmark
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