20.08.2010, 18:04
(20.08.2010, 16:48)Drizzt DoUrden a écrit : Alors, peut être cela n'est qu'une pure coincidence mais personnellement, je n'y crois pas, à moins que quelqu'un ai une explication...
Oui, mais non. Et pourtant si.
D'après Tolkien lui-même, Lettre n° 297 :
Tolkien a écrit :Rohan is a famous name, from Brittany, borne by an ancient proud and powerful family. I was aware of this, and liked its shape; but I had also (long before) invented the Elvish horse-word, and saw how Rohan could be accommodated to the linguistic situation as a late Sindarin name of the Mark (previously called Calenarðon ‘the (great) green region’) after its occupation by horsemen. Nothing in the history of Brittany will throw any light on the Eorlingas. Incidentally the ending -and (an), -end (en) in land-names no doubt owes something to such (romantic and other) names as Broceliand(e), but is perfectly in keeping with an already devised structure of primitive (common) Elvish (C.E.), or it would not have been used.
Bref, c'est un cas d'adaptation heureux, sans incidence particulière sur l'histoire (contrairement à Atalantë).
Et lire les Lettres, c'est utile.
Rollant est proz e Oliver est sage.
Ambedui unt merveillus vasselage :
Puis que il sunt as chevals e as armes,
Ja pur murir n’eschiverunt bataille.
— La Chanson de Roland
Ambedui unt merveillus vasselage :
Puis que il sunt as chevals e as armes,
Ja pur murir n’eschiverunt bataille.
— La Chanson de Roland