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tom_the_red t1_ja2orde wrote

Having Wargs in the Hobbit suddenly makes more sense - the word is an old one, but he revived it in this particular spelling. I wonder if he felt a secret smugness in knowing he was putting something into his slice of the dictionary.

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renannmhreddit t1_ja3gnbn wrote

He did that with a lot of words. His work as an etymologist didn't stop at a dictionary.

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