Re: USAGE: Language revival

Raymond Brown scripsit:

> ....which, Tolkien tells us, is why he coined the plural "dwarves" - he
> didn't want his dwarves to be confused with Disney's dwarfs.
I don't think that was the reason, but rather the after-the-fact
justification.  IIRC, Tolkien simply used "dwarves" because it fit
his Sprachgefuehl for English.

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