frostanon t1_ja27wt0 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 8:01 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 Yeah he invented a language, but he also knew language can't exist without culture/history/mythology so he started working on that. Permalink Parent 538
frostanon t1_ja27wt0 wrote
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
Yeah he invented a language, but he also knew language can't exist without culture/history/mythology so he started working on that.