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The Ring of Words: From Winterfilth to Blotmath
Updated 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s first job was as an assistant on the staff of the OED, and he later said that he had ‘learned more in those two years than in any other equal period of [his] life.’ In The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary, three senior OED editors – Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner – explore more than 100 words found in Tolkien’s fiction, such as ‘hobbit’, ‘attercop’, and ‘precious’. ...
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Kinchie 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter
Did you know: JRR Tolkien worked for the Oxford English Dictionary and he didn't just make up all those zany words? | http://bit.ly/2D1sjw
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notwritere 2 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter
Hobbits used Anglo-Saxon month names - reports blog from OUP: http://blog.oup.com/2009/11/winterfilth/
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uberVU - social comments 3 months ago on Wordpress
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From the Book: Shire Reckoning | A Casual Stroll to Mordor 3 months ago on Wordpress
[...] I need to make. I had said that Tolkien had created the names of the Shire months and after reading this article on the Oxford University Press I find that the amazing professor used old Anglo-Saxon texts for the [...]
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