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tsaimaitreya t1_ja2hkx6 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 10:06 AM

Reply to comment by Nixon4Prez in 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

Tolkien was also deeply interested in mythology and fairy tales, it's not just linguistics

He started working on the silmarillion as early as during WWI