Sunday, November 22, 2009

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

I looked in the dictionaries, but I didn't find a word for mouse in either Quenya or Sindarin. I guess Tolkien's elves didn't discuss mice.

But there are mice in Middle-Earth because Samwise recited a comic poem called Oliphaunt that begins "Grey as a mouse, Big as a house, Nose like a snake, I make the earth shake...".

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