If I remember correctly, Orthanc should mean something like "clever device" in old-english, but I can't remember what it meant in Elvish (it was something similar...). I've taken it from Unfinished Tales, but I can't find the exact quote...
[ March 06, 2003: Message edited by: Falagar ]
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Auta i lomë! Aurë entuluva!
"Take no heed! We speak as is right, and as King Finwë himself did before he was led astray. We are his heirs by right and the elder house. Let them sá-sí, if they can speak no better."
-Son of the Therindë
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