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The word farm did not originally mean a piece of land. It meant a rent. The Oxford English Dictionary traces it to the Anglo-Norman farme, an agreement on a fixed payment for the let of a property, and only later did the word slide from the payment onto the ground that produced it. Which is … Read more

Every map needs more than towns. It needs the river the towns are built on, the wood nobody walks through after dark, the pass that closes in winter and the inn at the bottom of it. Those names are harder to invent than character names, because a place name has to sound like it was … Read more

The word guild has nothing to do with craft, trade or brotherhood. It means payment. Old English gield meant a service, offering, tribute or compensation, and it comes from Proto-Germanic geldja-, a contribution. The earliest guilds Tacitus describes were sacred banquets that you had to pay into to attend. The word for the subscription became … Read more

Tolkien taught Anglo-Saxon at Oxford for twenty years, and it shows in one detail most readers never notice. The Rohirrim do not call their country Rohan. That is what Gondor calls it. Among themselves it is the Mark and the Mark is Mercia. Mercia was a real Anglo-Saxon kingdom covering the English Midlands. Its name … Read more

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