Re: Re: Name Space

Are you sure of Erudil's etymology?
I have The Languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth by Ruth Noel, Houghton Mifflin Company. This book contains an English-to-Elvish glossary. This glossary contains no entry for "servant". On the other hand, page 81, there is the entry:

friend (n)dil, (n)dur, nil, nur, S mellon.

So I think Erudil is rather God's friend, not His servant. The meaning is rather different.

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Re: Re: Re: Name Space by japhy (Canon) on Dec 11, 2001 at 05:12 UTC
The meaning is more familial than "servant", but the suffix (n)dil implies strong devotion. I have the Silmarillion backing me on this one. It's somewhere between "friend" and "servant"... a word that escapes me at the moment. _____________________________________________________ Jeff`[japhy]`Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker. `s++=END;++y(;-P)}y js++=;shajsj<++y(p-q)}?print:??;`	[reply]
Re^4: Name Space by polettix (Vicar) on Aug 30, 2005 at 16:37 UTC
The word is simple: Sam. And you know you can trust me :) Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Don't fool yourself.	[reply]