Monday, November 02, 2009

Hare, in J.R.R. Tolkien's words

The Quenya word for hare is lapattë.

There doesn't seem to be a Sindarin word for hare.

I couldn't find Quenya or Sindarin words for rabbit. More surprising was that I couldn't locate an Old English word for rabbit. As Tolkien was a Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at Oxford, maybe he saw no need for words for rabbit.

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