Linguistic puns, riddles, and jokes in LotR, etc. - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet Linguistic puns, riddles, and... 02-26-2003, 08:56 AM

Manardariel Very interesring point,... 02-26-2003, 09:47 AM

Selmo Manardariel, I'm afraid to... 02-26-2003, 10:41 AM

littlemanpoet And that's the joke. Sam's... 02-26-2003, 11:55 AM

Carorëiel The book, "The Hobbit... 02-26-2003, 02:30 PM

Rina A very interesting topic! ... 02-26-2003, 02:58 PM

Eressië Ailin Actually, I've only looked... 02-26-2003, 03:00 PM

Angry Hill Troll Here's a linguistic pun... 02-26-2003, 03:29 PM

littlemanpoet Rina: This is... 02-26-2003, 05:40 PM

Rina That is really interesting... 02-26-2003, 06:09 PM

Isilmëiel In Tom Shippey's book, he... 02-26-2003, 08:19 PM

MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie Hmmm...Interesting thread. ... 02-27-2003, 02:04 AM

Eönwë But isn't it always Aragorn... 10-10-2008, 04:03 PM

Galin I think Éomer means... 10-12-2008, 04:05 PM

Alfirin Oops, I;m sorry must have... 10-12-2008, 06:05 PM

Annunfuiniel Interesting discussion... 02-27-2003, 02:34 AM

Phrim Actually Tolkien has a lot to... 02-27-2003, 08:36 AM

littlemanpoet Rina: Well, it's not... 02-27-2003, 11:37 AM

GaladrieloftheOlden Did Tolkien know Hebrew? If... 02-27-2003, 11:46 AM

MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie Actually, I think the word... 02-28-2003, 01:20 AM

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Phrim In looking at those names, I... 02-28-2003, 08:15 AM

Rina To me, all the elvish names... 02-28-2003, 10:48 AM

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The Saucepan Man And as for the ego in Legolas... 02-28-2003, 08:58 PM

the guy who be short In elvish, Elrond is... 06-17-2003, 01:30 PM

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the guy who be short Legolas is sindarin for... 06-18-2003, 02:53 PM

Telchar Rina Said: We all get... 06-18-2003, 03:53 PM

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Finwe Actually Sam, her name... 06-23-2003, 07:40 AM

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Eönwë On reading 'alata' I... 10-10-2008, 04:25 PM

Morquesse Interesting discussion! ... 06-27-2003, 01:13 PM

Samwise Gamgee Also, and I think this is... 06-30-2003, 04:35 PM

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Mithalwen Although the standard... 10-04-2004, 11:42 AM

littlemanpoet You may yell at me if this is... 10-04-2004, 07:23 PM

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Alfirin A few others, Pippin's real... 10-11-2008, 05:00 AM

Morthoron The use of pompous names are... 10-12-2008, 06:22 PM

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Galin To add a bit on Pippin: as... 10-12-2008, 07:38 PM

Lord of Angmar I think that we should look... 07-02-2003, 02:04 PM

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Neferchoirwen Bilbo sounds like biblios,... 07-07-2003, 01:39 AM

Rimbaud I've always seen Legolas and... 07-08-2003, 11:45 AM

Måns Hmmm, something just crossed... 07-09-2003, 01:07 PM

Sharkû That's because the name is... 07-09-2003, 02:28 PM

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The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Tolkien's linguistic puns and... 07-13-2003, 08:32 AM

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02-26-2003, 02:30 PM	#5
Carorëiel Haunting Spirit Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Tennessee Posts: 54	The book, "The Hobbit Companion" by David Day, explores some of the linguistics/philology behind many of the names in Tolkien's work. Since my school deems linguistics something creative writing majors needn't bother themselves with, I can't comment on the accurracy/scholarship of the book, but it's interesting, at least. __________________ "Art is our way of keeping track of what we know and have known, secretly, from the beginning."--John Gardner