Date: Monday, 15 November 2004 05:09 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jordik.livejournal.com
Tolkien used Shibboleth in the title of one his remarkable linguistic essays: "The Shibboleth of Fëanor", a long discussion about how the Ñoldor began pronounching 'th' as 's', and how this was adopted by the Ñoldor opposed to Fëanor but not by the Fëanorians.

This began as an explanation of the "wrong" spelling used in Galadriel's lament

Date: Monday, 15 November 2004 05:10 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jordik.livejournal.com
Published in ''The Peoples of Middle-earth'' (The History of Middle-earth Vol. 12), text XI: ''The Shibboleth of Fëanor'' by the way.

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