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Originally Posted by Formendacil
But if you don't post the inaccuracies of Danish radio commentary for us, how will we get to demonstrate our vast and superior knowledge?  |
Speaking for myself, I always love leafing through HoME to find out if a question is answerable. I run into all sorts of stuff that I'd otherwise gloss over. ^_^
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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin
This isn't to say that certain elements weren't borrowed: ond "stone" he consciously used, as being what apparently is the only known word from the language of Britain's pre-Celtic inhabitants.
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Wait
what?
[Five minutes of book-diving later]
Huh! So, after being sent by Tolkien Gateway to both
Letters (where Tolkien indeed claims this, and says he remember it from when he was eight) and
The History of the Hobbit, I've landed on
Wikipedia's Ivernic/Ivernian language page. Or rather section, because sadly the theory - that
ond ("stone") and
fern ("good thing") entered Irish from proto-Celtic British invaders - has been generally discredited.
I really should read the Rateliff History again at some point...
hS