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04-17-2004, 07:44 AM | #1 | ||
Shade of Carn Dūm
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Discrepancies in Tolkien's writings
I have been thinking about this and puzzling it over for a while...but I am still stuck. Once again, it is over the meaning of 'Legolas'. (Sorry, guys... ).
But I was wondering, because in LOTR Galadriel calls him 'Legolas Greenleaf', which could be taken to mean that 'Legolas' means 'Greenleaf' (rather like the Glittering Caves of Aglarond- where Aglarond means Glittering Caves I think). In Tolkien's letters (211, to Rhona Beare), he says: Quote:
In the Book of Lost Tales I (under the entry in the Appendix for 'Tari Laisi') it says something completely different: Quote:
What are your thoughts on this? Do you have any other examples we could puzzle over?
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04-17-2004, 08:24 AM | #2 |
Hungry Ghoul
Join Date: Jun 2000
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The form and meaning in the Book of Lost Tales are ooold, just like the whole book. As you can see, the name was that of a 'gnome' of Gondolin, too. Tolkien changed his mind on linguistics even more often than on other aspects, this is one such case, which happened sometime between 1915 and the writing of the LOTR.
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