![]() Gollum, who has long forgotten about cooking (although one presumes that, in his distant life among his fellow proto-Hobbits, he wore clothes, lived in a house-or a hobbit hole–and ate bread), is convinced that Sam is going to ruin his catch. (“Coney” is a worn-down form of the Latin word cuniculus, “rabbit”, through Old French, the source of so many Latin-based English words.) It’s Sam, of course, trying to create a little domesticity while he and Frodo live rough on the trek south from the Morannon.Īt Sam’s request, Gollum has gone hunting and has returned with a pair of wild (European) rabbits, or coneys. (And a footnote–if you’re an American, you say that “erbs”, but, if you’re from the UK, you say it “ Herbs”.) The word is “taters”, as in “I’d give a lot for a half dozen taters.” ( The Lord of the Rings, Book 4, Chapter 4, “Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit”) ![]() This one is based upon a word, but that word leads us to an interesting question: when you make a new world, do you intend to include anything from your own? Or do things just sort of slip in? ![]() Welcome, dear readers, to our latest posting. ![]()
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