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03-21-2011, 11:29 AM
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Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
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I'm at work currently, so I'll answer what I can off the top of my head (while at the same looking terribly busy and professional):
p.72 lor -- mild expletive contraction for "lord" 90 brakes, ride -- a "brake" is a thicket, a "ride" is a stretch of open land 91 greensward -- an area of grass 107 worriting -- colloquial for "worrying" 116 fell -- An upland stretch of open country; a moor 120 spinney -- a thorny thicket 128 dragonets -- a type of fish or a miniature dragon 141 wights -- you're kidding me. You need this defined? 157 damasked -- could either refer to elaborately designed cloth or the steel of a blade 181 pate -- top of the head 266 glede -- a bird of prey, like a kite 306 doughty -- courageous or brave; usually only Dwarves are doughty (really!) 369 bole -- another name for a trunk or base of a tree 408 thrawn -- crooked or misshapen; could also mean perverse or stubborn 417 wains -- wagons 421 rowans -- a rowan is a type of tree with red berries
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03-21-2011, 02:08 PM
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Wight of the Old Forest
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Let's not forget eyot "small island", another favourite word of the Professor's, which is a curious linguistic bastard, consisting of OE eg "island" (which still survives in such place-names as Bardsey, Orkneys) with a French diminutive suffix tagged on.
Interestingly, the already much discussed fey "doomed to die" has a cognate in German feig, which originally had the same meaning as in English and is still so used in the Nibelungenlied, but has shifted to meaning "timid, cowardly, craven" in Modern German - quite the opposite of Tolkien's fey. Diachronic semantics is a funny thing.
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03-21-2011, 02:52 PM
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03-21-2011, 02:59 PM
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Parakeet, Hammond and Scull's Lord of the Rings - A readers companion includes explanation of unusual vocabulary as well as many useful references and insights. It has pagination for 3 and single volumes but superficially your pages do seem different however given that the notes follow the text and are divided into identically named chapters it should still work.
I wonder if it is just because I have been reading Tolkien so long that most of these words don't seem strange? Maybe not in all cases though some may be specifically British usage... like fell in the geographical sense. Brake is used locally to me to refer to gorse thickets.
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