Re: Tolkien's notion of biology
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 15, 2003, 10:46 |
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A friend commented thus on the link
that started this thjread:
>
> I didn't quite see the linguistic element in
>this critique of "ethnicity" in Middle-earth.
>Given that we have Dunedain (and some Hobbits)
>speaking Sindarin, while Elves, Dwarves, Orcs,
>Hobbits and Rohirrim are speaking Common Speech,
>and that neither "Elf" nor "Orc" maps neatly onto
>a single language, and "Hobbit" doesn't map at all,
>I have to wonder whether the author is confusing
>Tolkien with Dungeons and Dragons. Hm.
/BP 8^)
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