Re: Who were the Aryans?

"Jordan179" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> IIRC from LOTR and the _Akallabeth_, a lot of Numenorian royalty
> _were_ pale and black-haired. I think Tolkien had Celts more than
> Scandinavians in mind when he imagined them.
>
> Their _names_, incidentally, when rendered in their own tongues sound
> more Semetic than Indo-European, and I'm sure the effect was
> intentional. I bet Tolkien enjoyed the weirder speculations about
> Atlantis and the Lost Tribes of Israel.

IIRC, Tolkin says in one of the appendices that none of his languages are
"translated" in a way that is intended to sound Semitic.  An odd statement,
considering the plurals in "-im".