Found this when I was looking for prompt-words for this month's challenge stories:

150 Words to Describe the Taste of Food

They are having a neat discussion at TORN about the wisdom of Middle-earth. Seems like it would be a fun thing to explore here.

My own response is here behind the cut, but I'd love to see what others might say:
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I get rather annoyed with the way newscasters and journalists suddenly decide to change the pronunciation of certain words or make up new ones out of a clear blue sky, and then suddenly everyone is doing it ( Read more... )

I just finished a *very* interesting book about JRRT. It's called "The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary" by Paul Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner.

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