Linguistic puns, riddles, and jokes in LotR, etc.

[Morquesse]

Interesting discussion! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

When I first read LotR, the only way I remembered Legolas' name was because I thought of 'LEGOlas'. Now I think of 'Legless'. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

To be technically correct, the Old English word for 'Horse' is 'eoh', not 'eo' but any way. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
Eorl, the ancester of the Rohan people, is the old english word for 'noble'.

And there is more stuff I found out about Pippin's names. 'Pippin' is a word of old slang meaning 'a person or thing much admired'. Peregrine is a word that can mean alian or strange (or as I believe they put in the Thesaurus,'weird one'), exotic, traveler or pilgrim. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

~M