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History Memes@lemmy.today · 23 hours ago

Tolkien when his publisher used the dictionary to try to tell him he mispelled dwarves

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Tolkien when his publisher used the dictionary to try to tell him he mispelled dwarves

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And he was a linguist too, so he probably knew how he wanted to words to be pronounced in his world.
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Dwarves too? I’ve always heard the story as elfs vs elves.
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