Currency in Aman and Arda? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Bêthberry · 11-29-2010, 10:19 AM

I suspect that the absence of many direct, specific discussions or references to money in Middle-earth arises from the fact that there were no philological quandries concering the words for coins.

Thus, Tolkien didn't have to engage in any "backformation" to create "asterisk"words for money--as Shippey has explained Tolkien's process in The Road to Middle-earth and Author of the Century .

Therefore, it just didn't interest him.

11-29-2010, 10:19 AM	#9
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	I suspect that the absence of many direct, specific discussions or references to money in Middle-earth arises from the fact that there were no philological quandries concering the words for coins. Thus, Tolkien didn't have to engage in any "backformation" to create "asterisk"words for money--as Shippey has explained Tolkien's process in The Road to Middle-earth and Author of the Century . Therefore, it just didn't interest him. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.