imapassenger1 t1_ja2976y wrote on February 26, 2023 at 8:17 AM

Reply to comment by Nixon4Prez in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

Interesting to look at a map of Iceland and some of the place names look like they belong in his books. Tolkien was a big fan of Old Norse and Icelandic.

Hambredd t1_ja2gp57 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 9:55 AM

I mean pretty famously the names of the dwarves in The Hobbit are just straight up ripped from the poetic edda.

Invictae t1_ja35sx3 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 2:33 PM

Even Gandalf was a name he copied from the poetic edda

bioshockd t1_ja36chz wrote on February 26, 2023 at 2:37 PM

Good old Wand-Elf

EfficientAlgaeGreen t1_ja2f09t wrote on February 26, 2023 at 9:33 AM

But do they beat Bagginswood?

alcapwnage0007 t1_ja3qutl wrote on February 26, 2023 at 5:00 PM

No no, bagginswood was the actor who played frodo