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Bug#181850: ITP: mordor -- Multi-user Dungeon game, based loosely on Tolkein



Paul wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Steve Greenland wrote:
> 
> > On 20-Feb-03, 20:39 (CST), Paul Telford <paul@droflet.net> wrote: 
> > >   Description     : Multi-user Dungeon game, based loosely on Tolkein
> > 
> > "Based loosely on Tolkein"? Hmmm, doesn't seem much like a mid-20th
> > century writer primarily driven by language issues to me...perhaps
> > 'based loosely on Tolkein's books' or "on Lord of the Rings".?
> 
> Noted.  Updated to:
> 
> Description: Multi-user Dungeon game, based loosely on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien

That's getting perilously long and is already over the reccommended 70
characters. May just be me, but I think it is accepted usage to just use
an author's last name to refer to their body of work or most popular
work. As in: "see K&R".

-- 
see shy jo

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