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Admetus t1_ja2vzff wrote

Reply to comment by frostanon 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

He realised that language is so closely related to those things he basically developed his own Norse/Celtic epic to carry his invented language!

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ThePrussianGrippe t1_ja3xddy wrote

And to make up for the fact there wasn’t much in the way of surviving Anglo myths since the saxons introduced themselves on the island.

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