SR.KAUFMAN%MIT-SPEECH@sri-unix.UUCP (07/13/83)
From: David H. Kaufman <SR.KAUFMAN at MIT-SPEECH> I've found my source - "Tolkien: A look behind the Lord of the Rings", a Ballantine book by Lin Carter (the edition I have in front of me says $1.50, but it has probably gone up). The quotation I remembered is from the first book of the Elder Edda, stanzas 9 - 15, where the names mentioned include 14 dwarves and Gandalf. The book also contains a discussion of plot elements that Tolkien borrowed (and usually altered) from various mythologies, and so forth. David