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Postby Amandil » June 26th, 2006, 4:31 pm

Does anyone of you happen to know what the word "ouroborindra" (chanted by Wither and Straik when worshiping the head in THS) means or where it comes from? I've already tried to find out but without much success. Of course the first thing that comes to mind is that it is in some way related to Eddison's Worm Ouroboros, but I couldn't really find a connection. If it was ouroborandra it could be Greek and mean something like "a man that swallows himself from the back" but that doesn't help too much either.
Any suggestions?
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Postby Theo » July 5th, 2006, 10:48 am

I suspect it was just meant to be an alien and creepy-sounding word.
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Postby rofe408 » April 25th, 2008, 12:51 pm

(giggle) I thought it was a nonsense phrase made to show how ridiculous & pathetic they had become, especially when the chant ended not with alleluia or "amen" but "ba - ba- hee." It sounded like something from a rock & roll song.
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Postby Stanley Anderson » April 25th, 2008, 3:06 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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