What Makes the Names of Middle-earth So Fitting? Elements of Style in the Namecraft of J. R. R. Tolkien
Abstract What makes a name ‘fitting’? Or, in closely related formulations, what makes a name ‘sound right’ or ‘ring true’? From the Cratylus to present-day studies in literary onomastics, the usual answer is that a name is fitting, right, or true for the person, place, or thing that bears it. The na...
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Names |
| Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1976 |