Gotta throw down a mostly unrelated fact cause I saw Wormtongue mentioned. I've seen meme being like "Tolkien, master of language, names a traitorous dude Wormtongue. And yeah, the rohirrim speak ango saxon and worm comes from warm as in dragon and tongue from tong as in sword. He's Grima dragonsword in universe. The Rohirrim literally speak Anglo Saxon
they only kinda-literally speak anglo-saxon, because everything is "translated"
in reality they speak a language related to westron.
but yeah, the translation conceit came later, the rohirrim became what they are cos tolkien went "what if anglo saxons but with horses! wouldnt that be coooooool?"
Gotta throw down a mostly unrelated fact cause I saw Wormtongue mentioned. I've seen meme being like "Tolkien, master of language, names a traitorous dude Wormtongue. And yeah, the rohirrim speak ango saxon and worm comes from warm as in dragon and tongue from tong as in sword. He's Grima dragonsword in universe. The Rohirrim literally speak Anglo Saxon
they only kinda-literally speak anglo-saxon, because everything is "translated"
in reality they speak a language related to westron.
but yeah, the translation conceit came later, the rohirrim became what they are cos tolkien went "what if anglo saxons but with horses! wouldnt that be coooooool?"
God Tolkien was such a fucking nerd. I love it.
Rohan is evil confirmed.