Nori

Fourteen for Nori… A note on the naming of dwarves.

  • 01.046 Dori, Nori, Ori,
  • 01.070 Dori, Nori, and Ori brought out flutes
  • 02.033 groaned Dori and Nori
  • 02.075 and Dori and Nori and Ori all in a heap,
  • 06.052 Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin,
  • 06.054 said Nori to Dori looking down.
  • 07.063 but Nori and Ori were there almost before he had stopped,
  • 07.065 Nori at your service,
  • 08.024 next Ori and Nori,
  • 08.073 Dori, Nori Ori,
  • 08.108 Bifur, Bofur, Dori and Nori.
  • 10.015 Dori, Nori, Ori,
  • 18.033 and Dori and Nori and Ori,
  • 18.038 and farewell Dori, Nori, Ori,

Oakenshield

  • 01.050 in fact no other than the great Thorin Oakenshield himself,
  • 04.030 Not that it will do you much good, Thorin Oakenshield,
  • 07.053 Thorin Oakenshield,
  • 08.073 Thorin Oakenshield,’
  • 10.018 when Thorin Oakenshield stepped
  • 12.004 O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield,
  • 14.041 of Thorin Oakenshield,
  • 15.019 Thorin Oakenshield.
  • 15.056 we speak unto Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield,
  • 16.027 However you don’t know Thorin Oakenshield
  • 16.040 But I wonder if Thorin Oakenshield will see it so.
  • 18.016 There indeed lay Thorin Oakenshield,
  • 18.038 Farewell Thorin Oakenshield!

Ogre

I am fascinated by the relationship between “ogre” and “orc”:

Etymology:  < French ogre (late 12th cent. in Old French in sense ‘fierce pagan’, c1300 in sense ‘man-eating giant’, attested again from 1613; also †hogre (1704 in the passage translated in quot. 1713 at main sense)), further etymology uncertain and disputed.

French ogre is perhaps < classical Latin Orcus , the name of the god of the infernal regions, Hades, Pluto (further etymology uncertain), with metathesis of r (perhaps influenced by words such asbougre bougre n.), or perhaps < post-classical Latin Ugri , Ungri , Ongri , applied by early writers to the Hungarians or Magyars (see Ugrian n.). Compare ( < classical Latin Orcus) Middle Frenchorque hell (16th cent.; probably a later reborrowing), and also Italian orco demon, monster (13th cent.), Spanish huerco devil, personification of death or hell (1330), Sardinian orcu demon, and early modern Dutch orck unruly person (Dutch regional ork). Spanish ogro (1787) is a borrowing from French ogre.
  • 05.056 and ogres he had ever heard told of

“ogre, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 25 June 2015.

Oin

He’s mentioned by name nineteen times. Here’s a note on the naming of dwarves.

  • 01.046 Oin, and Gloin were their names;
  • 02.034 not even Oin
  • 02.036 while Oin
  • 02.038 and Oin
  • 02.075 and Oin
  • 04.013 Oin and Gloin wanted to light a fire at the door
  • 06.052 Dori, Nori, Ori, Oin,
  • 06.099 since Oin
  • 07.081 Oin and Gloin yet.
  • 08.021 and then Oin
  • 08.024 and Oin and Gloin
  • 08.073 Oin, Gloin,
  • 10.015 Oin and Gloin were waterlogged
  • 13.013 If Oin
  • 13.016 and Oin
  • 13.017 Oin with a small pine-torch alight
  • 13.025 Thorin! Balin! Oin! Gloin!
  • 18.033 and Oin
  • 18.038 Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur!

Orcrist

I love that even in The Hobbit the rich interconnectedness of the tongues which Tolkien played like an orchestra can be heard as nearby echoes.  Here we see the translation of goblins – a Hobbit enemy – into “orc” – their usual name in Lord of the Rings.

[03.035]  This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist, the Goblin-cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin;

  • 03.035 This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist,
  • 04.033 They had called it Orcrist,
  • 04.041 Orcrist, too, had been saved;
  • 06.012 and everywhere with Orcrist.
  • 10.025 and the great sword Orcrist too.
  • 18.032 Upon his tomb the Elvenking then laid Orcrist,