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@@ -416,27 +416,30 @@ Location: <a href="../../location.html#SG">SG</a> - <em>Republic of Singapore</e
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have a <code>pgm</code> viewer then we suggest the <a href="https://netpbm.sourceforge.net">netpbm
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toolkit</a> to convert the image to a graphics
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format that you can view. Most graphical web browsers can display PNG or JPEG
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images.</p>
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images. See the
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FAQ on “<a href="../../faq.html#netpbm">netpbm</a>”
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for help.</p>
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<h2 id="try">Try:</h2>
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<pre><code> ./try.sh</code></pre>
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<p>NOTE: technically the text is supposed to be in all lower case but the script
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<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: technically the text is supposed to be in all lower case but the script
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does use some upper case letters for demonstration purposes.</p>
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<h2 id="judges-remarks">Judges’ remarks:</h2>
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<p>Did you know that in the first edition of <a href="https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Hobbit">The
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Hobbit</a>,
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<a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/g/gollum.html">Gollum</a> was willing to give
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up the ring? It was not the Ruling Ring, the <a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/o/onering.html">One Ring</a>,
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the Ring of Power or
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<a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/g/gollum.html">Gollum</a> was willing to give up the
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ring? It was not the Ruling Ring, the <a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/o/onering.html">One
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Ring</a>, the Ring of Power or
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anything like that: it was simply a literary device that could make one
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invisible. When <a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/b/bilbobaggins.html">Bilbo</a> won
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the famous <a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/r/riddlegame.html">Riddle-game</a> Gollum went to fetch the Ring -
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not to kill and eat Bilbo but to give it to him! But Bilbo had already found it
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just like in the later editions. Gollum profusely apologised and begged for
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forgiveness. Bilbo told him never mind because he would have had it anyway. But
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he’d let him off on one condition: that he show him the way out. It was at this
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point that Bilbo slipped the ring on and Gollum saw him vanish and understood
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that he already found it. But there was no call of thief and no hatred of Bilbo.
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It was not until a sequel was called for that this was changed.</p>
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the famous <a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/r/riddlegame.html">Riddle-game</a> Gollum
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went to fetch the Ring - not to kill and eat Bilbo but to give it to him! But
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Bilbo had already found it just like in the later editions. Gollum profusely
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apologised and begged for forgiveness. Bilbo told him never mind because he
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would have had it anyway. But he’d let him off on one condition: that he show
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him the way out. It was at this point that Bilbo slipped the ring on (in the
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same way as the later editions) and Gollum saw him vanish and understood that
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Bilbo had the ring. But there was no call of thief and no hatred of Bilbo. It
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was not until a sequel was called for that this was changed.</p>
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<p>If you want to read the first edition they reprinted it some years back: <code>The Hobbit Facsimile First Edition</code>. The details are also discussed in <a href="https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_History_of_Middle-earth">History of
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Middle-earth (HoMe)</a> VI, <a href="https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Shadow">The Return of the
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Shadow</a>, part one of
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@@ -444,8 +447,9 @@ the history of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings">The
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Rings</a> of a twelve volume set - as well as in <a href="https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_History_of_The_Hobbit">The
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History of the
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Hobbit</a>.</p>
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<p>Fun fact: at first Gollum was akin to a goblin-kind but this was immediately
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struck out.</p>
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<p>Fun fact: at first Gollum was akin to a
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<a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/g/goblins.html">goblin</a>-kind but this was immediately
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struck out and he became a Hobbit.</p>
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<p>p.s. <a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/f/frodobaggins.html">Frodo</a> lives!</p>
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<h3 id="an-important-aside--">An important aside :-)</h3>
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<p>BTW: if you haven’t read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings">The Lord of the
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@@ -454,19 +458,24 @@ You’ll find out the source of the text above though you’ll see that there ar
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some circumflexes missing! That’s okay though due to I/O of the entry and in
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earlier drafts sometimes the <code>û</code> had no diacritic but <code>h</code> after the <code>u</code> in
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it (and other times nothing). The real text is:</p>
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<pre><code> Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
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ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.</code></pre>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,<br>
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ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<p>which when translated from <a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/b/blackspeech.html">Black
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Speech</a>:</p>
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<p><img src="One_Ring_inscription.png"
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alt="The inscription, in the Black Speech of Mordor, on the One Ring"
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width=690 height=127></p>
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<p>into the <a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/c/commontongue.html">Common Tongue</a> reads:</p>
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<pre><code> One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
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One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.</code></pre>
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<blockquote>
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<p>One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,<br>
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One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<h2 id="authors-remarks">Author’s remarks:</h2>
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<p>This program takes a single command line argument, transcribes the
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argument text into Tolkien’s Elvish letters, and writes the
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argument text into <a href="https://www.tolkienestate.com/life/biography/">Tolkien</a>’s
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<a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/e/elvish.html">Elvish</a> letters, and writes the
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transcription to standard output as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm#PGM_example">portable
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graymap</a> (PGM) file.</p>
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<p>The specific transcription mode is the <a href="https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/b/blackspeech.html">Black
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