Deborah Harrell wrote:
>
>Fun site - and I find etymology fascinating. I think
>that's one of the reasons I enjoyed Tolkien so much -
>I named two of my cats (alas, gone to that great
>prowling ground in the sky) using 'Elvish' words or
>word-roots. (Turned out that someone else in Baton
>Rouge had also named their cat 'Mithril!')
>
Oh-oh. Be glad I don't forward this message to the
Tolkien mailing list, Naming _cats_ with Tolkien's 
invented languages might surely make him spin in
his grave - he was deeply ailurophobic. The only
proper name for a cat would be "Sauron" :-)


Alberto Monteiro

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