只可惜,托尔金否认自己创造了这个单词。
Bob: Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings fifty years before Harry Potter, thank you very much.鲍伯:托尔金早《哈利·波特》五十年就写了《魔戒》,谢谢你喔。
I've talked before about JRR Tolkien and his association with The Oxford English Dictionary.我在前面已经谈论过关于托尔金和他与牛津英语词典的联系。