12:P3a
The Languages at the end of the Third Age (a)

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Volume: The Peoples of Middle-earth
Chapter:
Pages: 29–51
Paragraph count: 74
Token count: 8,227

Citation Index

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p29
The Languages
at the end
Third Age
§1I have written
§2We have in
p29–30
§3According to Elvish
p30
§4In Valinor, from
§5Now after long
p30–31
§6According to the
p31
§7Now the Men
§8When at last
p31–32
§9The language of
p32
§10This Common Speech
p32–33
§11Beside the Common
p33
[This paragraph was
§12Moreover, those were
p33–34
§13Now the people
p34
§14In this way
[The conclusion of
p35
§15More remarkable it
§16The Orcs had
p35–36
§17Trolls, in their
p36
§18Elves, it may
p36–37
§19The Elvish names
p37
§20To speak last
§21Since Hobbits were
[The latter part
p37–38
§22Among Hobbits [added:
p38
§23Now that language
p39
§24An example of
§25The Hobbits in
p39–40
[The end of
p40
§26As soon as
§27In the Shire,
§28In this way
p40–41
[The following passage
p41
But this was
On Translation
§29The linguistic situation
p41–42
§30The Elven-tongues I
p42
§31My treatment of
§32It will be
Note
p42–43
§33I will here
p43
§34This distinction was
§35It was one
§36Most of these
p43–44
§37Only in a
p44
§38Passing from the
§39For instance, if
p44–45
§40To translate the
p45
§41The nomenclature of
p45–46
§42The personal names
p46
§43More debatable, perhaps,
§44It seemed to
p46–47
§45This method entails,
p47
§46Hobbits very frequently
§47For the benefit
p48
Family names
Took Hobbit Tūc,
Baggins H. Labingi.
Brandybuck Earlier Oldbuck.
Bolger Merely an
Boffin Anglicized from
Gamgee H. Galbassi.
p48–49
Cotton H. Lothran.
p49
⸤¶§48¶⸥⸤¶Hobbit¶⸥
p49–50
Hobbit This, I
p50
⸤¶§49¶⸥⸤¶Personal names¶⸥
Bilbo The actual
Frodo On the
Meriadoc (Merry) The
p51
Peregrin (Pippin) The
Sam His real