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Originally Posted by Mnemosyne
The reason I say this is that countless, countless, countless British Victorian novels consistently use "further" for "farther." Which makes me inclined to say it's either an American rule, or one that wasn't created until after that era.
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Bingo--I think you've got it! Using
further in that sense must've been merely standard idiomatic British English of Tolkien's day, just as
of free will meant
of [his/her/my/our/your/their] own free will.