The Hobbit: Which Everyday Catchphrase Still Used Today Was Invented By Bilbo Baggins?

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Tolkien is one of those quintessentially English writers, who loved to reflect many elements of traditional English culture within his writing. From the Ents and the trees in the stories being based upon the English woodlands he grew up in, to the hobbits love of drinking, pipe weed, and tending their gardens, so many aspects of him and his love for his home are included in the books.

One thing that is particularly interesting about the English culture, and particularly the English language, is the unusual penchant for words, rhymes and riddles. Tolkien himself was a linguist, and he loved to study languages from all over the world, including the norse and Irish mythologies, translations of epic poems like Beowulf, and the Medieval Roman of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

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This love of languages is something can be seen strewn throughout all of his literary works, from the elven, dwarven and rohirim languages he created, to the strange spider language that Bilbo is able to understand by using the Babelfish effect of the ring, unusual words and names he creates for his characters, such as Aragorn and the long line of predecessors before him. Tolkien loved the playfulness of language, and how it can have so many different nuances and interpretations, from the serious to the fun.

One of the most interesting things about the English in particular is the use of unorthodox catchphrases to give different meanings to things. For example ‘It’s raining cats and dogs’ means that there is a heavy downpour in the weather, and is thought to come from when the sewers of London would flood after a heavy rain, and the cats and dogs would come up into the streets