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forquare1

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Re: Asylum has been naughty

jonbwfc wrote:


	paulzolo wrote: I suspect they thing the word "Hobbit" was a generic word like elf or goblin. They managed to get away with using the word Alien in their seminal work "Alien vs Hunter".

Well the Ridley scott movies weren't the first thing to use the word 'alien' to represent 'extra terrestrial' by a long chalk. It may have (and given JRR's hobbies, probably does have) an old English origin, but in terms of films & books etc, 'hobbit' ~= JRR Tolkien much more than 'alien' ~= Ridley Scott.

Alien is a generic term that's still in common use. Hobbit is not.

Jon

If memory serves, Tolkien was asked about the origin of 'Hobbit' and he was unsure, they found one previous use of the word many, many years before in a book that Tolkien had no recollection of reading. There was a thought at the time that it might have originated from 'rabbit', or similar...

Though I can't quite recall where I heard this or if the details are right...For all I know I dreamt the whole thing...

Wed Dec 12, 2012 12:24 pm

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Russian Hobbit. Answers on a postcard to Bratty's address, please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m0l3Yr1B50

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	pcernie wrote: Russian Hobbit. Answers on a postcard to Bratty's address, please. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m0l3Yr1B50

I never knew Bilbo was fluent in Russian as well as Elvish. :shock:

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