Re: i gots uh kwesteon [OT tolkien]

_Tol_ is simply the Quenya word for "island". It occurs also in Sindarin,
variously spelt _tol_ or _toll_.

                                                    Andreas

Quoting Jonathan Lipps <jon832@...>:

> Tol Brandir, for example. or Tol Eressea, I think.
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> my conlang is as most of your messages say based on germanic langs but some
> of the words come from names that i use for things or ways that i pronounce
> things plus i like the way russian sounds so i based alot of my suffixes on
> thins that i thought sounded slavic or heavy germanic.but there were a few
> things wrong like the word "mare" = horse but "marezh" or "mareshch" = horse
> land. the word "ekwih" = is or equal just like the word "omt" should be
> translated as plus because they mean the same thing. "toll" = island and is
> derived from the names of islands in LOTR (i dont have the book handy to
> give an example).
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