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Another likely origin is the Sampo in Elias Lönnrot's 1849 Kalevala, a text that Tolkien studied with interest, thinking to use it in a story in 1914. The Tolkien scholar Jonathan B. Himes states that the Sampo is the "central mythic object" in the Kalevala ; it gave its owner "socio-economic supremacy". [ 7 ]
The Etymologies is J. R. R. Tolkien's etymological dictionary of his constructed Elvish languages, written during the 1930s.As a philologist, he was professionally interested in the structure of languages, the relationships between languages, and in particular the processes by which languages evolve.
In the philologist and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction, a warg is a particularly large and evil kind of wolf that could be ridden by orcs.He derived the name and characteristics of his wargs by combining meanings and myths from Old Norse and Old English.
The first sources of light for all of Tolkien's imaginary world, Arda, are two enormous Lamps on the central continent, Middle-earth: Illuin, the silver one to the north, and Ormal, the golden one to the south.
Part I: "Tolkien as Lexicographer" describes Tolkien's work as an Assistant Editor on the dictionary. He would sort through the raw materials—slips of paper containing examples of the use of words from documents covering many centuries—and disentangle the development of different shades of meaning over time.
Eärendil's son Elrond too chose elvish immortality, becoming known as Half-elven, and in the Third Age played an important role in The War of the Ring, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. [ T 4 ] Elros chose mortality, the gift of Men, founding the line of the Kings of Númenor ; [ T 4 ] his descendant at the time of The War of the Ring was ...
The name Mirkwood derives from the forest Myrkviðr of Norse mythology. 19th-century writers interested in philology, including the folklorist Jacob Grimm and the artist and fantasy writer William Morris, speculated romantically about the wild, primitive Northern forest, the Myrkviðr inn ókunni ("the pathless Mirkwood") and the secret roads across it, in the hope of reconstructing supposed ...
Origin of Felagund. Nulukkhizdîn: Nargothrond, the Petty-Dwarvish name Gabilân 'Great River'. a portion of the river Gelion: Sigin-tarâg: The Longbeards, the house of Durin. Gabilgathol 'Great Fortress' (Belegost). Sharbhund: Amon Rûdh, possibly meaning 'Bald Hill' as is in Sindarin. Gamil Zirak 'Old Spike', Nickname of a Firebeard smith ...