Posted: November 24, 1999 at 10:33:15: by shadowfax
: : I read somewhere that "Ettenmoors" was chosen by JRRT because anciently inhabited by Ents. Can anyone confirm this statement and/or provide a bibliogrphical reference?: Ettin (etten) has a similar Anglo-Saxon origin to Ent. But I think here Tolkien was using the word in it's original meaning: ie a man-like creature of giant size. So in this particular case I would imagine the "Ettins" in question were trolls. It's a long time since I read Narnia, but wasn't there something called Ettenmoor there too?
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