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Old 03-24-2007, 01:13 PM   #17
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Are we done with Mr Thingol? Shall we move onto something else? I will repeat that I think it will be a lot more fruitful looking in Rohirric and Westron than the Elvish languages, as any Elvish-English connection is probably going to be coincidental (except perhaps Eldar-Elder).

I'm rereading UT, which has a lot on how Rohiriric words are related to Anglo-Saxon.

Also, has anybody read 'The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary' - apparently a good source for the linguistically-minded.
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