Re: The Hobbit, after all these years

On 11/10/2012 12:02 AM, Gwyn Ryan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Jenny Tait <piratejenny@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> The letter/rune Wayne's talking about is thorn. At least that's the one I'm
>> pretty sure he's talking about.
>>
> Oh yeah, same rune, different name. I just used the Anglo-Saxon name
> because I mostly know it from my Germanic Pagan studies. I don't know
> if it still held the same pagan associations once it was passed down
> into Old English, and I don't know what Tolkien's source was, so I
> don't know if he had reason to be aware of those associations.

Er, Anglo-Saxon is Old English. Perhaps you knew the Germanic name for it?

And Tolkien was a major Old English scholar. He was also very familiar
with the Eddas and such and of course the Kalevala (which inspired much
of Elvish society).


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