Talk:Rivendell

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in 1968, the inhabitants of a commune in Zealand, Denmark, named themselves after the valley Rivendell from J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth?

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Arthur link[edit]

In the following sentence, shouldn't "Arthur" link to "King Arthur"? The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger writes that both Frodo and Aragorn receive their renewed magic swords in Rivendell, marking them out as heroes in the epic tradition of Sigurd and Arthur, at the start of their quest. Manudosde (talk) 12:42, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:04, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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