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    Re: LOL! Exactly. Also the Spanish slang 'Pajero', with the same meaning, fits nicely. Do you remember Archived Message

    Posted by Ian M on September 2, 2019, 4:52 pm, in reply to "LOL! Exactly. Also the Spanish slang 'Pajero', with the same meaning, fits nicely. Do you remember"

    huh, interesting. Any connection to this, I wonder?:

    'Barad-dûr (pronounced [bʌrʌˈduːr]), also called the Dark Tower, is a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings and is described in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and other works. It is an enormous fortress of the Dark Lord Sauron, whence he rules the volcanic and barren land of Mordor. Located in northwest Mordor, near Mount Doom, the Eye of Sauron keeps watch over Middle-earth from its highest tower [...] In the Elvish language Sindarin, Barad-dûr translates barad "tower" and dûr "dark" – this is rendered into English as "the Dark Tower." ' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barad-d%C3%BBr

    Apparently he knew some Welsh, albeit being pretty rude about the mythology:

    '[Many] prominent Tolkien scholars believe that Tolkien also drew influence from a variety of Celtic (Irish, Scottish and Welsh) history and legends.[150][151] However, after the Silmarillion manuscript was rejected, in part for its "eye-splitting" Celtic names, Tolkien denied their Celtic origin:

    Needless to say they are not Celtic! Neither are the tales. I do know Celtic things (many in their original languages Irish and Welsh), and feel for them a certain distaste: largely for their fundamental unreason. They have bright colour, but are like a broken stained glass window reassembled without design. They are in fact "mad" as your reader says—but I don't believe I am.[152][153]

    Fimi pointed out that despite his dismissive remarks about "Celtic things" in 1937 that Tolkien was fluent in medieval Welsh (though not modern Welsh) and declared when delivering the first O'Donnell lectures at Oxford in 1954 about the influences of Celtic languages on the English language that "Welsh is beautiful".'     - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien#Writing

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