For the Love of Philology

[Lady Snickerdoodle]

Legolas (n) - An unpopular or hated person, esp. due to hanger's on and followers/worshippers.

NOT COOL!!! LEGOLAS IS THE COOLEST ELF EVER!!!! meany. oh wait that just proves your point doesn't it... *confuuused!*

i will think up something clever later...

[Rindoien, elf of Lothlorien]

arwen (adj.) - to steal something that previously belonged to someone i.e. When the girl got arrested a policeman said to another "She's a real arwen, stealing that book from Mr Jones!"

*ducks from tomatoes*

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

LEGOLAS IS THE COOLEST ELF EVER!!!!

(In his most dignified voice)I beg to differ...my father's cooler than Leggy so nyerr!!!

(Tries to restrain self)Wait, where did that come from?

Anyway?

PJ(noun)-a paradox.
That PJ...I don't know whether to kill or to venerate him...

Later days! [img]smilies/cool.gif[/img]
->Elenrod

[Evisse the Blue]

PJ(noun)-a paradox.
That PJ...I don't know whether to kill or to venerate him...

Oh, that was just great! Plus I can completely identify... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Here's another one movie-related:

to helmsdeepen = to extend the screen time of your favourite scenes and /or scenes which you believe will add significantly to the comercial success of your based-on-a-book movie, in the detriment of other scenes.
One mustn't helmsdeepen the mushy scenes when making an Iliad adaptation.

[Arothir]

Chrisafy (verb) to "edit" something wrong

CJRT comepleted Chrisafied the Silmarillion.

[Finwe]

Dwobbit: someone who is too tall to be a Hobbit, but is too short to be one of the Dunedain


In real life, Elijah Wood is a Dwobbit.


Hoppit: a small person who hops around repeatedly

When you get him on a trampoline, Jack is a real hoppit.

[Arwen Evenstar]

These are so much fun!

Pippinish- simple mindedness

Legolas- another name for a pansy

That`s all I can think of for now!


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[Aiya]

Hehe, these are all great. My favourite would definitely be Balrog-winging. I love it! Anyway, here's my little contribution.

Gollum (noun): A really nasty cough.
eg/The boy was sick with the gollum, and begged to stay home from school.

Ent (verb): To speak confused nonsense.
eg/Stop enting, and explain yourself!

1420/fourteen-twenty (noun): A drink or food that surpasses expectations.
eg/That pie is a real fourteen-twenty..

[Arwen Evenstar]

These are all very funny!

Taters (noun)- PO-TA-TOES!!! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 8:16 PM January 11, 2004: Message edited by: Arwen Evenstar ]

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Firiel(Star Wars noun)[From firi(Elvish) to die + el(Elvish) star] - Death Star.

Don't ask me! That just popped out!

-&gt;Elenrod

[Corwyn Celesil]

Legolas (n): to cause a wide variety of people to become completely (and unjustly) frustrated with an originally excellent character due to illogical nazgirl behaviour rather than with the nazgirls themselves.

Eowyn (n): a paradox; esp. to forsake a sacred duty in order to save a king's life and fulfill prophecy.

Grima (v): to look lustfully on a woman with one's eyes in the manner of a slug crawling over a rose.

Faramir (adj): a person of great inner character, strength, and virtue; one who rejects temptation (syn.: Aragorn, Gandalf)

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Ranger(noun) - a name for one of the Dúnedain of the North after the fall of Arnor; [modern meaning] a stalker.

Later days!
->Elenrod

[mark12_30]

Mor_Annon: a twelve step program for greed-recovery. The classes were held in towers and strongholds in the north of Mordor. The class-dropouts and rejects generally migrated south or moved into the local caves.

[mark12_30]

thanc: Short form of "Thanks". Expression of gratitude among wizards for extravagant top-floor hospitality over a protracted time span. Often emphasized with prefix "Or!"

[Imladris]

Eowyn-ite: a person morbidly obsessed with glory and honour, who wishes to die a good death at the hands of his country's enemies.

Many thanks to "A shadow and a thought" thread for the inspiration.

Cheers,
Imladris

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

EDIT: This post was originally put up as the beginning of a new thread, but if you read through the next few posts you'll see how and why it was quickly, and quite rightly, merged with Esty's brilliant thread from two years ago.

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Everybody knows how important words were to Professor Tolkien. The names, places, and languages of Middle-Earth are a rich and wonderful storehouse of witty allusion, learned jests and low puns. Things like “Smaug” from the Old German verb ‘smugan’ which means “to squeeze through a small hole.” Or “Frodo” from ‘frodá’: “wise by experience.”

It seems to me that we, his most devoted followers, owe it to the Professor to pick up where he left off and to recover for ourselves the meanings of the names and words that he invented. What he did with the languages of the past, we should do with the languages of his works.

Let us create new words from those of the Professor, with which to describe things that currently lack a word of their own. For example:

sheorc, (she + orc) pron. sheYORK (noun): A hypothetical or speculative monster or creature; a person or concept that logic dictates should exist, but for which there is no empirical evidence.

Example: an honest lawyer; an exciting accountant; a good reason to hate The Lord of the Rings.

to balrog, pron. BAL-rog (verb): To seek unthinking vengeance upon those who have done you no harm; to absolutely lose it and rage about in a fury; “wigging out.”

Example: “I was so mad when the neighbors cut down their crabapple tree that I balrogged at them for three hours.”

legolass, pron. LEG-oh-lass (adjective): Attractive and capable, but not terribly perceptive or interesting; flaky, or like a bimbo (not necessarily pejorative).

Example: “Nicole Kidman gets more and more legolass every time I see her.”

frodosam: pron. Fro-DOH-sam (noun): A perfectly suited pair; two people so closely associated with one another that they seem one, and inseparable.

Example: “My grandparents are a real frodosam” or “Britney Spears and Hilary Duff are in danger of forming the world's first frodosam of bad taste.”

What other new words can we come up with?

[Estelyn Telcontar]

A great idea, Fordim! There's something similar on the Tolkien vocabulary thread...

[Zebedee]

uruk pron. yur-uk (adj): destructive or cruel

Example: Bob's uruk temper gets him in trouble.

[mark12_30]

Esty, whatever happened to your M-E dictionary thread??? I've searched and searched!



EDIT: Cross posting. Thanks, Esty!!!

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

A great idea, Fordim! There's something similar on the Tolkien vocabulary thread...

Aha! I figured there would be a thread like this out there already, but I could not find it.

Bad Fordim, bad -- no donut.

I wouldn't object if this presumptious thread were closed and/or moved into the appropriate place.

*Fordim shuffles his feet and glances about nervously, fearing the Great Green Hand of Doom*

[Estelyn Telcontar]

No problem, Fordim - it hasn't been active in awhile, so you wouldn't have noticed it. I don't have moderating powers here, so it's BW's decision whether the two threads should be merged...

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

to barrowight pron. BEAR-oh-white (verb): to wield a fearful power; to exercise one's might; to put fear into one's underlings.

Example: "I am terrified that this thread will be barrowighted in the near future."

[The Barrow-Wight]

I just barrowwighted two threads together. Nah, that doesn't work.

I just merged the two threads together.

[mark12_30]

The men of Carn Dum came upon us in the night, and we were worsted. Ah, the spear in my heart!

Carn Dum: Verb. To be overwhelmed and defeated (orig. impaled) while trespassing on the Barrow-Wight's territory.

barrow: to be locked away underground, never to see the light of day again.

"What happened to your thread?"

"Carn Dumed! It went off topic and got barrowed."

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle

sheorc, (she + orc) pron. sheYORK (noun): A hypothetical or speculative monster or creature; a person or concept that logic dictates should exist, but for which there is no empirical evidence.

Example: an honest lawyer; an exciting accountant; a good reason to hate The Lord of the Rings.

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After the teaching didn't work out, I had to earn my corn somehow ...so I admit it, I am a bean-counter (albeitn neither chartered or certified. Do I make or preak your hypothesis? I have to say - there is only one accountancy joke - but there is only one academic one too so.....

[Mithalwen]

This is like "Call my Bluff" save all are true..


"to do a HerenIstarion" v. transitive/intransitive

1. To bump a thread up the forum board for the enlightenment of the more recently dead

2. To be very kind and encouraging to new downers

3.To be amazingly articulate and erudite in one's third or fourth language.

[Evisse the Blue]

Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle

sheorc, (she + orc) pron. sheYORK (noun): A hypothetical or speculative monster or creature; a person or concept that logic dictates should exist, but for which there is no empirical evidence.

Example: an honest lawyer; an exciting accountant; a good reason to hate The Lord of the Rings.

Why should there be, logically speaking, a good reason to hate Lotr? But I stray...

Arwane (verb) (ar/w:a:ne): To waste away pathetically and glamorously while dreaming of a rugged yet handsome fellow whom you very rarely get to meet.

[Boromir88]

First off, this is a great thread, lol haha, good idea Estelyn!

Wetwang- A general, derogatory remark to someone.

Sentence: You filthy wetwang!

Synonyms: Dwimmerlaik, Tark

Stoor (s. noun)- Hobbitish for Store, a place to shop for goods.
(pl.) Stoors.
Sentence: He went to the stoor to get some red wine.

[HerenIstarion]

HerenIstarion – etymology - probably from the legendary sentence Here, new Star is on [the sky] – ascribed to Melkor when he first saw Earendil’s Silmaril rising. In modern speech, usually expresses astonishment upon seeing something uexpected, long looked for but found in unlikely place

example sentence: herenistarion! here is my long-lost shoe, in a lavatory pan, who would have thought!

[Lalwendë]

Bag End (noun), curious fate which awaits discarded Netto carrier bags, doomed to flutter disconsolately, caught in the top branches of urban trees until they degrade.

Second Breakfast (noun), large, unnecessarily lardy snack consisting of bacon and egg sandwich, large milky coffee and bar of Dairy Milk which one must visit the staff restaurant to buy at 9.30am, precisely one and a half hours after first breakfast, which usually consists of a modest portion of muesli and fruit.

Wormtongue (noun) (pejorative), obnoxious, odious line manager who projects an air of easy approachability but is skilled at exploiting areas of weakness and likes to secretly go and exaggerate about these in reports as a way of sucking up to the boss.

Prancing pony (noun) (vulgar), curious dance one is forced to resort to in order to control oneself when, to one's dismay, a long queue has formed to the ladies.

Desolation of Smaug, like the , descriptive of any motorway service station.

[Boromir88]

Osgiliath (Oz-gol-liath)- (person). A legendary giant, slain by DAVID Wenham (AKA Faramir).

[arcticstorm]

Fingolfin: 1. Noun, one who challenges a stronger person to a fight that they know they can't win.
2. Noun, One who sacrifices himself for a futile cause.
3. Verb, to inflict a severe injury on a stronger foe.

[Kransha]

The Middle-Earth Enpsychelopedia, Volume 1, A-D

Arnor, ar-NOR, (verb) to arnor: to allow habitation by dead people; “In the classic movie, “Day of the Dead” some of the most populous global metropolises were arnored by their inhabitants.” (noun) a moot locale inhabited by the recently deceased [not to be confused with a cemetery/mausoleum/graveyard/orangutan]. “If one can grasp the fact that Barrow-Downers have no lives, and therefore are without life, the highly-renowned website the frequent can be considered an arnor.”

Angband, ang-BAND, (noun): A tight, metallic, spiky armband which is often besieged by fashionable, vogue Elvenkings. "Her angband shown with such unadulterated brilliance than the mighty Thingol Greymidriff saw fit to inquire after it."

Asfaloth, as-fah-LOTH, (noun): an item or group of items in the same category easily commandeered and/or claimed by the forces of efficiency; “International censuses have proven time and time again that the current Starbucks chain is a very lucrative asfaloth.” (verb) to asfaloth: to place under feminist ownership. “For many years, the Association of Mesoamerican Political Entities (AMPE) was a sub-group of the Association of Mesoamerican Political Entity Sponsors (AMPES), but, for the sake of bureaucratic convenience, the AMPE was asfalothed into the AMPES subsidiary, the Association of Mesoamerican Political Entity Sponsor Spouses (AMPESS).”

Aulëy, OWL-lay, (noun): a slang term for a rock/metal band. “‘Dem Beatles were a jolly good aulëy, eh, ol’ chap?”

Avarin, ah-VAH-rin, (adj.): See STUPID.

Beruthish, beh-RUTH-ish (adj.): Cat-loving, felusphilic, Halle Berry. “Gollum’s beruthish attitude was oft established by his unavoidable habit of saying ‘purrrrecious’ to everyone and everything, in a most disconcerting manner.”

Bullroar, bull-rore (verb) to bullroar: To do something noticeable and yet not be noticed. “Though Thucydides thought that his philosophical lectures were the most intellectual thing around, in truth, he was only bullroaring.”

Bungoe, BUNG-go, (verb) to bungo: To give birth to someone of symbolic importance. “John Adams, the Second U.S. President, was the only executive official ever to have two relatived who bungoed: one was his own father, and the other his son, who bungoed John Quincy Adams, the 7th U.S. Commander-in/and/or/and-Chief.”

Caradhrassy, car-AHD-drass-ee, (adj.): Red, horny, and cruel. “The famed Scarlet Skootcher of West Birmingham is infamous among Birmig-folk for its erratic nature, and caradhrassy physical appearance.”

Cram, kram, (adj.): Overshadowed by adversarial culinary delights. “Samwise Gamgee’s eminent dish, “Fried Conies and Taters” has reduced the finest of Germanic delicatessens to a gaggle of cram foodstuffs.”

Crebain, KREE-bane, (verb) to crebain: To make loud, cacophonous noise en masse. “The rabid, vociferous horde of Orlando Bloom fans, part of the infamous ‘Orly Prelature’ began to crebain wildly as their golden idol approached.”

Dain, dane, (verb) to dain: To make iron-footed, or wear iron gollashes. “The ancient Khuzdul mafia, a group of gangly ganstas, used to dain their cheaper clients.”

Denethor, den-ah-THOR, (noun): A pyromaniac/hydrophiliac/figurehead. “Jimmy, don’t play with matches! You wouldn’t want to grow up to be a criminally insane denethor, would you?”

Dwimore, dwim-MORE, (verb) to dwimore: To be more d[w]im, or dull. “Businessmen have a tendency to act intelligent, but this defense mechanism rarely succeeds, and is often more akin to dwimoring.”

[Boromir88]

Beregond (verb)- To show extreme admiration or love to a single person.
Sentence: I beregond Faramir so much.

Beruthiel (noun)- A cat, feline.
Sentence: I love the way my beruthiel purrs.

[The Saucepan Man]

Lindirolise, to: pron. Lin-DEER-o-lize (verb): To make a sweeping and derogatory comment.

Example: To describe all mortals as being like sheep because they are difficult to tell apart, or to describe all lawyers as dishonest ( ).

[Zebedee]

morian (adjective): a place that was once beautiful, but has since fallen into disrepair.
Example: It is a pity to destroy those morian buildings, they can be beautiful once more with a little work.

[Rimbaud]

Aragorn: colloq. (Aus), collapsed version of the full "Are we going?". As in: Look sugar, I've been loading up the car for three hours with your make-up so you can stop asking 'Aragorn' every coupla minutes. Savvy?"

Gandalf: n., 1) a male goose (otherwise gander), who is also called Alf and 2) a person named Alf who closely resembles a gander.

Middle-Earth: The earth with the syndrome. As in: "Have you seen all the wars on Middle-earth?" "Yes, Geoffrey, and I can only put it down to middle-earth syndrome."

[Lalwendë]

Buckland (noun), term to describe a drinking establishment which is largely populated by loud young men, (see Buck, young) e.g. a sports bar, or cavernous, cacophonous bar without any seats.

Example: "The Red Lion used to be such a nice pub, but now they've re-opened as Goalz, it's a real Buckland".

Brandywine (noun), drink which is popular with young men in Buckland establishments. A new trend taking over from the more traditional pint of ale, this is an alcoholic beverage which is sweeter but more potent (see alcopop).

Example: "'Ere, Daz, I can drink 10 bottles of this 'ere Brandywine in one hour. Try that with Stella."

Brandybuck (noun), a young man who is fond of the Brandywine.

Example: "I think we'll try a quieter pub, Margaret, this place is full of Brandybucks."

[Sapphire_Flame]

Firiel(Star Wars noun)[From firi(Elvish) to die + el(Elvish) star] - Death Star

That's awesome.

And now some new ones...

Strider (noun) - a physically active person who enjoys being outdoors and who doesn't bathe very frequently

Telcontar (noun) - a strider who bathes more often

Aragorn (verb) - to conduct oneself in a regal or distiguished manner; (noun) a person who conducts himself in such a manner

Elessar (verb) - to succeed in a strenuous physical or emotional task; (noun) a person who has succeeded in a difficult task

Thorongil (verb) - to inadvertently upstage another individual; "stealing one's thunder"; (noun) a person who upstages others without meaning to

Estel (noun) - a person with a generally positive outlook

Wingfoot (verb) - 1) to pursue a group on behalf of a wronged friend; 2) to hastily retreat from a dangerous situation

Longshanks (noun) - a derogatory moniker applied to aragorns and striders

Dunadan (noun) - a person who is skilled in many different things

colouring Legolas's hair (phrase) - to debate something when there is no conclusive proof supporting any standpoint; see also balrog-winging

Abedithon le,

~ Saphy ~

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Great Scot (exp) - Eomer of the Rohirrim.
Do I really need an example sentence?

It's quite obvious you only wish to get a rep from Eomer. Wherever you are, please don't succumb.