The care taken over the etymologies is fsacinating, especially the way they tie into the mythology, so that a historical linguist in Middle-Earth could take either the view that, say, galad and galadh are related because of the two trees, or that the mythology of the trees was constructed in order to explain the similarity of the words.
The care taken over the etymologies is fsacinating, especially the way they tie into the mythology, so that a historical linguist in Middle-Earth could take either the view that, say, galad and galadh are related because of the two trees, or that the mythology of the trees was constructed in order to explain the similarity of the words.