tom_the_red
tom_the_red t1_ja2orde wrote
Reply to TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
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.
tom_the_red t1_jan92gn wrote
Reply to comment by Express_Basis_8038 in Northern lights outside Anchorage, AK last sunday night [OC] (3024x4032) by awesommazing
They are powered by the rotational momentum of Jupiter and the gravitational squeezing of the moon Io. If both survive the end of the Sun, the aurora of Jupiter might be one of the brightest things left to shine in the solar system