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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9565117" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Yes.&nbsp; Part of that I'm convinced is the language used.&nbsp; He makes heavy usage of shorter, anglo-saxon derived words, for example, which sound more poetic and grounded.&nbsp; And light usage of later addition latin-derived words, which feel more &quot;modern&quot; and scientific.I don't find the language used anachronistic at all, though.&nbsp; I'm struggling to think of examples of actually archaic words Tolkien uses in the prose.&nbsp; I can't recall a lot of &quot;thou&quot;, &quot;anon&quot;, &quot;betwixt&quot;, or &quot;shalt&quot;.&nbsp; It's not like E.R. Eddison writing in 16th century style in his 1922 The Worm Ouroboros, which Tolkien liked.One of the interesting tricks Tolkien plays in Fellowship is starting in Hobbiton, which is portrayed as a deceptively modern English place (with its umbrellas and clocks and distasteful relations stealing the silverware and so forth), before venturing FROM there into a more elder fairy-tale world.Absolutely.&nbsp; Ursula Le Guin famously pointed this out.You mentioned Tolkien and D&amp;D and then let us all project, Rorschach blot-style, our own ideas all over the thread!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9565117, member: 7026594"] Yes. Part of that I'm convinced is the language used. He makes heavy usage of shorter, anglo-saxon derived words, for example, which sound more poetic and grounded. And light usage of later addition latin-derived words, which feel more "modern" and scientific. I don't find the language used anachronistic at all, though. I'm struggling to think of examples of actually archaic words Tolkien uses in the prose. I can't recall a lot of "thou", "anon", "betwixt", or "shalt". It's not like E.R. Eddison writing in 16th century style in his 1922 [I]The Worm Ouroboros[/I], which Tolkien liked. One of the interesting tricks Tolkien plays in [I]Fellowship [/I]is starting in Hobbiton, which is portrayed as a deceptively modern English place (with its umbrellas and clocks and distasteful relations stealing the silverware and so forth), before venturing FROM there into a more elder fairy-tale world. Absolutely. Ursula Le Guin famously pointed this out. You mentioned Tolkien and D&D and then let us all project, Rorschach blot-style, our own ideas all over the thread! [/QUOTE]

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