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Lalaith · 06-21-2004, 03:05 AM

Actually, facetious comments aside, the Goths weren't a fad, they were a 3rd/4th century tribe. You can read about them here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goths

So, you can see that the Goths were a Germanic tribe of very early history, and the Anglo-Saxons were dated a few centuries later, (8th/9th century). This fits in, as Guinevere explained earlier, with what Tolkien was doing giving the earlier Northmen Gothic names and the people of Rohan, hundreds of years later, Anglo-Saxon ones.

Vikings were also a Germanic culture, and thus related, but their geographical and linguistic origins were rather different, they came from Scandinavia whereas the Goths and the later Anglo-Saxons were from mainland Europe.

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06-21-2004, 03:05 AM	#14
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	Actually, facetious comments aside, the Goths weren't a fad, they were a 3rd/4th century tribe. You can read about them here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goths So, you can see that the Goths were a Germanic tribe of very early history, and the Anglo-Saxons were dated a few centuries later, (8th/9th century). This fits in, as Guinevere explained earlier, with what Tolkien was doing giving the earlier Northmen Gothic names and the people of Rohan, hundreds of years later, Anglo-Saxon ones. Vikings were also a Germanic culture, and thus related, but their geographical and linguistic origins were rather different, they came from Scandinavia whereas the Goths and the later Anglo-Saxons were from mainland Europe.