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Re: tolkien?

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Monday, December 15, 2003, 8:44
Quoting Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>:


> uruk from *RUK = "fear"  - wouldn't that be the result of Sauron/Gorthaur
> having charge of GE/M-tormenting the captured Avari into Orcs.

You're not the first to suggest it, but proof that this is how JRRT imagined
things seems to be lacking.

                                                          Andreas