Re: Pablo is back, Job, Argentina, Relay, Lord of the Rings

On Thursday 10 January 2002 10:40, you wrote:
> --- Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> > my "belreg," which is the word for "combat,"
> > "battle," but which I now realize I
> > stole from Tolkien's "balrog" long years ago.
>
> Isn't this a Dutch word as well??  I don't know the
> language, but I swore I saw it on tv just a few days
> ago...
We do have "beleg", meaning "siege"; there's no 'r' in it.

We also have "balrog" but only in translated Tolkien :-)

   Irina

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