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05-10-2007, 05:52 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: In the house of Tom Bombariffic
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Fair enough I suppose, if Tolkien said that about Smeagol, the linguistic approach has lead me astray. Interesting though, that the name he came up with sounds less like the word he derived it from than another word, which he would certianly have been aware of.
smugan is the Anglo Saxon rendition of the ON smjúga, so we're really arguing the same point on that one. bombariffic
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05-22-2007, 07:01 PM
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Newly Deceased
Join Date: May 2007
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I have a thread in a different Tolkien Study Site that gpes nto comparisons with Different Mytholoiges to Tolkiens. I have only done 2 (Norse and Christian), and am working on Greek similariites. Just thouht you might want to know.
Here If you want to comment on it, feel free to do so in this thread (with the permission of the thread starter, mind you. Thread starter: Please OK that. You don't have to, but please do.)
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