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Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar
Welcome to the Downs, Avie! Your alternate possible name choice would have surprised a lot of people who haven't read HoME! I wonder what Tolkien would think if he realized the connotations of that name nowadays...
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I half wonder if it even occured and maybe someone had to point it out to him ...surely if he noticed such things he wouldn't have called the Uruk/Orc in Cirith Ungol (not Gorbag) THAT.... but maybe it just meant a type of tobacco or a bird like a cormorant then........