• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    Sure… but Tolkien could tell you Treebeard’s name in hall a dozen languages he’d made up for his setting (or for fun, before the setting was a thing), including full etymologies.

    • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      Including Treebeard’s actual name in his own language. Treebeard is almost a joke name meant to show how primitive the humans are who called him that.