Re: Elliott's peoples
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 23, 2003, 2:17 |
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Doug Dee scripsit:
> Why do you call it "unconscious"? Tolkien used "dwarves" rather than
> "dwarfs" deliberately, according to Appendix F of LotR, and it seems
> reasonable to assume that "Dwarvish" was likewise a conscious choice.
I said it was an unconscious *invention*. Having invented it, he consciously
chose to deploy it in his published works.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
--_The Hobbit_