27-04-2007, 15:08
<small>Petit complément, dans les CLI 3, Christopher Tolkien, cite une note de son père sur l'étymologie du nom <i>Incánus</i> et complète en évoquant ce problème d'étymologie...<p><div class="refTexte">[...]and at the end of the discussion he remarked that the coincidence in form of the Quenya name and the Latin word must be regarded as an "accident," in the same way that Sindarin Orthank "forked height" happens to coincide with the Anglo-Saxon word orpank "cunning device," which is the translation of the actual name in the language of the Rohirrim.<div class="refTitre">C.Tolkien, CLI 3, 2-The Istari</div></div><br></small><br>