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In the background, we also hear the guns of World War I. The Great War had already been raging for a year when Tolkien, himself a soldier at the time, wrote the Lexicon. On p. 94, we find the onomatopoetic tompo-tompo, ominously glossed "noise of drums (or guns)". Patakatapaka (or pataktatapakta) is simply defined "rat-a-tat" (p. 72), but we need not doubt that it is the sound of machine guns we are hearing.
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It seems that Tolkien first intended Noldo to mean "goblin", but the classical meaning of the word swiftly arose (p. 67).
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