Tolkien and the 'other' N-word ;)

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Originally Posted by Earendilyon

If you want to learn new, archaic, obscure or obsolete words, you should read The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson!

Yes that is a great way to learn new words but you have to be strong... I found it very hard to make it through the first half of the first book: it was just a re-shuffling of Tolkien. After a while though it did turn into his own story-which is very good.

I'm not sure that the words I learned where quite as interesting as the ones I learned from Tolkien though. I mean they were in my dictionary whereas quite a lot of the Tolkien ones where impossible(well really hard) to find.