Re: tolkien?
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 16:52 |
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At 21:56 15.12.2003, Pavel Iosad wrote:
> > so it would seem
> > that _orc_ is a CS loan from Sindarin. (It's also an OE word meaning
> > something like "demon";
> > coincidence, as they say in Middle-earth!)
>
>Met in Beowulf, anyway (orcneas, something like 'corpses')
Actually "Orks' corpses". JRRT must have thought
that the idea of "demons' corpses" was strange,
given the usual definition of 'demon' as 'evil
**spirit**', so _orc_ must be something else,
more flesh-and-bloody, right?
/BP 8^)
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