Sally Caves wrote:
> Legolas:
> "Crebain from Dunland!" (It's been a while since I've
> read these books, but I know someone else speaks this);
I'm pretty sure it's Aragorn who says this when he's
having the watch with Sam. Let's see. Yup. Page 302
in the Big Fat All Inclusive version: "They are not natives
here; they are crebain out of Fangorn and Dunland." Says
Aragorn.
> but doesn't this look like an "Elvish" version of L. corvinus,
> "raven"? Or am I just fishing in the dark? What's the
> Irish for "raven"? Or the Norse?
Icelandic has "hrafn". Swedish has "korp" and 'crow'
is "kråka". Those birds pretty much go /kra kra/ so
it's not strange for them to have an onomatopoeic name
like _craban_.
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