Re: "Common" Tongues

John M. Dollan scripsit:

> Wasn't it also called Westernesse?  It's been a while since I've read
> Tolkien...
Westron, rather, an adjective Tolkien apparently invented, based on
"southron".  Westernesse is Numenor, Tolkien's Atlantis, the lost home
of the Numenorians.

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_