Sam and Frodo

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

One of the things that strikes me as odd, though, is that when people ask about the Hobbits, they say "Are they gay"? When gay is used in the books to mean happy.

The modern sense is very recent, like most of the really pointless changes to the language: deliberately diverging the spelling of certain words, for example. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]