#pspspspspspspsps ooooooooo I was a GNSD major ooooooo u wanna let me look at Tolkien’s notes so bad

[borom1r]

I've always head-canon/referred to the language as Rohirric, just made sense in my mind, along the lines of Rohirrim-multiple people/nation, Rohir-singular person. I also use it to refer to anything cultural; a Rohirric poem/saga, a Rohirric wedding. Thoughts?

I tend to default to Rohirric = culture and Rohanese = language for no real reason other than Rohanese is the most documented term Tolkien used for the language in his notes, but at the same time even Tolkien went back and forth + other Tolkien scholars use Rohirric for the language so it really doesn’t matter— at the end of the day, use whatever sounds best to you!

(ultimately I do think Rohirric sounds better than Rohanese by a MILE and ik it’s more widely used in fandom so there’s that too lol)

#ive definitely gone back and forth/called the language ‘Rohirric’ bc it does sound better lmao #it’s also fundamentally upsetting to me how many resources are like ‘and here’s a list of Rohanese words :)’ and then it’s just the fucking #Old English. or ‘here’s a list of Westron words’ and it includes attested Rohanese words. I’m going to start throwing bricks #people cannot keep getting it this fucking wrong consistently I will start screaming. I will. #I need to go straight to the fucking source at this rate sir PLEASE #pspspspspspspsps ooooooooo I was a GNSD major ooooooo u wanna let me look at Tolkien’s notes so bad #(GNSD = German Nordic Scandinavian & Dutch)