23.12.2010, 14:25
Quelques citations à la volée concernant le sémitique :
Citation :Adunaic with its, well, faintly Semitic flavour belongs more nearly to our world, somehow.
Sauron Defeated, p. 241
Citation :General Structure.
The majority of the word-bases of Adunaic were triconsonantal. This structure is somewhat reminiscent of Semitic; and in this point Adunaic shows affinity with Khazadian rather than with Nimrian. [...] The vocalic arrangements within the base, however, do not much resemble Semitic; ...
Sauron Defeated, p. 415
Citation :The Dwarves of course are quite obviously a - wouldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? All their words are Semitic, obviously; constructed to be Semitic. There's a tremendous love of the artefact. And of course the immense warlike passion of the Jews too, which we tend to forget nowadays.
JRRT to Denys Gueroult, 1965 BBC interview
