Tolkien vocabulary I (serious) - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

KayQy · 01-18-2002, 09:04 AM

Yes! Words! We loves them, my precious, yes we do...

"Doom". You get such a sense of inexorable fatality with this word when reading LotR that you don't get from, say, hearing C3PO say "we're doomed" every five minutes.

A lot of interesting things also popped up when I tried reading the Spanish translation of FotR. They translated nearly all the names, so I had to go to the dictionary a lot. It was something to realize that Withywindle=Willow-wander (more or less), and that the Shire basically means "the Neighborhood". (Makes sense if you think about it, but I never had.)

He took such pains with his words, didn't he?
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01-18-2002, 09:04 AM	#11
KayQy Wight Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Currently Spain Posts: 250	Yes! Words! We loves them, my precious, yes we do... "Doom". You get such a sense of inexorable fatality with this word when reading LotR that you don't get from, say, hearing C3PO say "we're doomed" every five minutes. A lot of interesting things also popped up when I tried reading the Spanish translation of FotR. They translated nearly all the names, so I had to go to the dictionary a lot. It was something to realize that Withywindle=Willow-wander (more or less), and that the Shire basically means "the Neighborhood". (Makes sense if you think about it, but I never had.) He took such pains with his words, didn't he? [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ Do you really want to know / Or are you a little scared, Afraid that God is not exactly what you'd have Him be? --OC Supertones, "Wilderness" "Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter." -- Max Beerbohm