That does make it rather less gnomic.narya wrote:I'm a little out of my depth here, but fortunately, there's Wikipedia. Not sure if this is what was being talked about, but it's interesting, none the less.axordil wrote:I didn't follow your post at all.Galin wrote: Which means?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurvandil
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Actually, gnomic applied, too:
1. JRRT had gnomes in his early writing.
2. A gnomic saying is a shorthand aphorism.
3. It comes from the same root as knowledge, in this case, inside knowledge.
Works for me, anyway.
1. JRRT had gnomes in his early writing.
2. A gnomic saying is a shorthand aphorism.
3. It comes from the same root as knowledge, in this case, inside knowledge.
Works for me, anyway.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus
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"Gnomic utterance" is also a fairly common phrase.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Like this one, for example. 
The phrase returns more than 48,000 hits on Google.
The phrase returns more than 48,000 hits on Google.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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<looks both ways>
Look, I've used it. Probably here.
I know, I need to get help.
Look, I've used it. Probably here.
I know, I need to get help.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King