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Writing an answer to another question, I stumbled upon a quote from The Hobbit: Bilbo rushed along the passage, very angry, and altogether bewildered and bewuthered - this was the most awkward ...
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2019-12-12T21:57:30Z (about 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T10:05:46Z (about 5 years ago)
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Writing an answer to another question, I stumbled upon a quote from _The Hobbit_: > Bilbo rushed along the passage, very angry, and altogether bewildered and bewuthered - this was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered. (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party) 'Bewuthered' is a word coined by Tolkien. Other coinages by Tolkien include 'flammifer' and 'eucatastrophe'. Which made me wonder: when would an author coin a word, rather than use what's already in existence? Note, I am not talking about terms for new fantastical beings, like 'hobbit'. 'Bewuthered' appears to mean something along the lines of 'confused'. So what prompts an author to coin a new word? How does one go about it? And what does one tell the editor, when the editor insists "_bewuthered_ is not a word"?
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2018-11-05T00:55:17Z (about 6 years ago)
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