Rivendell

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

02.123 when I met a couple of friends of mine from Rivendell.”
03.006 is the fair valley of Rivendell
03.012 into the secret valley of Rivendell.
19.001 to the brink of the valley of Rivendell,

Riverside

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

09.063 in the village by the riverside;

Roäc

June 25, 2015September 28, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 100K, 10K, JRRT, Middle-earth, onomatopoeia, word

This proper name qualified for our onomatopoeia tag. It hints that we have all heard and been surrounded by ancient raven-tongue our whole lives and have simply not the wit to hear this lingering remnant of the Third Age.

Tolkien himself writes in his Essay on Phonetic Symbolism about the origin of this name – and of his father’s

rook is no longer krāg or krāk or χrk from which it took its use.

15.014 I am Roäc son of Carc.
15.017 said Roäc.
15.021 Roäc Carc’s son.
15.022 croaked Roäc,
16.005 said Roäc,
17.030 but Thorin sent messengers by Roäc

Tolkien, J. R. R.. A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages (Kindle Locations 1954-1955). HarperCollins Publishers. Kindle Edition.

Rockets

June 25, 2015October 25, 2015 lfsaldenbirch 10K, brief, word

08.059 in rockets of glittering sparks

Rockhewn

June 25, 2015September 20, 2017 lfsaldenbirch 10K, hyphen, JRRT, word

The entry and the examples of the word in the OED are hyphenated, with one example as two separate words. We have here another reminder that we are reading a work in translation.