It's Hobbit Week!

Dec 12, 2012 00:17

I got my online handle, 10 years ago, from a Tolkien name generator: calenmundoiel. Never spent the time to study any form of Elvish (though Quenya is nearly a requirement for reading the Silmarillion), but look what I just learned!

The name Legolas is a Silvan dialect form of pure Sindarin Laegolas, which means "Greenleaf" [...] It consists of the Sindarin words laeg, a very rare, archaic word for green, which is normally replaced by calen; and golas, a collection of leaves, foliage (being a prefixed collective form of las(s), "leaf").

via tolkiengateway

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