Sheep
From Tolkien Gateway
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Artwork by Brad Williams for MECCG
Sheep were woolly grazing animals, especially common in the Númenórean region of Emerië, and (in Middle-earth) on the Barrow-downs and in the Vales of Anduin.
Names
The Quenya word for "sheep" is máma, derived from Primitive Quendian māmā.[1]
In Gnomish, one of Tolkien's early conceptions of an Elven language, the word for "sheep" is moth (pl. mothrim or mothin); iol is "little lamb" (lambkin" is iolinc).[2]
Portrayal in Adaptations
2002: Vivendi's The Fellowship of the Ring:
- Sheep are found on the fields around Bagshot Row.
2007: The Lord of the Rings Online:
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar: Appendix D. *Kwen, Quenya, and the Elvish (especially Ñoldorin) words for 'Language'", p. 395
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue", in Parma Eldalamberon XI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne), pp. 51, 58
