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
