Sujet : "Griping Strength" De : le (at) *nospam* main.lekno.ws (Louis Epstein) Groupes :rec.arts.books.tolkien Date : 06. Dec 2024, 04:04:59 Autres entêtes Organisation : PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID :<vitpkr$i26$1@reader2.panix.com> User-Agent : tin/2.6.3-20231224 ("Banff") (FreeBSD/13.3-RELEASE-p7 (amd64))
When he assaulted Frodo on the slopes of Orodruin, the text says Gollum had lost "his old griping strength".
This has survived all revisions so apparently the word choice is deliberate.
But does it refer to grips or to gripes?
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"Griping Strength"
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