But were the elves red ...like the dwarfs are red??? Spencer Ball Attorney at Law 3690 E. Ft Union Blvd # 101 Salt Lake City, UT 84121 (801) 453-2000 spencer@spencerball.com This law firm collects debts.  This communication may be an attempt to collect a debt.  Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.   Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail transmission and any documents, files or previous e-mail messages attached to it, are confidential and are protected by the attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, disclosure, copying, dissemination, distribution or use of any of the information contained in, or attached to this e-mail transmission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, please delete this message and its attachments from your computer. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Raeburn Kennard Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 10:18 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Birth order of Red Dwarfs Spencer Ball asked: Are they able to determine reasonably precisely when the red dwarfs in our galaxy were born? According to Tolkein's Silmarillion, first came the elves, then came the dwarfs, then came men. In his later histories we learn that somewhere in there came the hobbits. The Orcs were corruptions of some or all of the foregoing. I hope that answers the question. Raeburn Kennard _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com