Invictae t1_ja35sx3 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 2:33 PM Reply to comment by Hambredd 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 Even Gandalf was a name he copied from the poetic edda Permalink Parent 20
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Reply to comment by Hambredd 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
Even Gandalf was a name he copied from the poetic edda