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Originally Posted by Inziladun
As for Hobbits, though they held to the Elvish manner of referring to the Sun as she, I doubt they knew the genesis of that. Hobbits had forgotten their own history up to a fairly recent point, so it seems unlikely they knew (or cared to know) about a lot of "Elvish nonsense).  |
Especially since, prior to Bilbo's work, it's unlikely that the legends/histories of the First Age were even available in Westron, at least in the North; and very very few hobbits ever learned Sindarin. Note that at Weathertop the tale of Beren and Luthien was new to them; and none knew about Gil-Galad save Sam (and doubtless Frodo), who had learned it from Bilbo.