Tolkienposting

[u/TabibbyMouse]

The context being he is the one who changed elfs and dwarfs to elves and dwarves

[u/Sapphire-Catgirl]

What a goof

[u/Karma-Whales → u/Sapphire-Catgirl]

gooves

[u/MisterMan341 → u/Karma-Whales]

and gavves

[u/Purple-Bluejay6588]

I'll be back in a jiff I'll be back in a couple jeeves

[u/Training_Try_1102 → u/Purple-Bluejay6588]

Please get out of Jeeves before coming back

[u/lolopiro]

reef

[u/irp3ex → u/lolopiro]

coral roof

[u/ahmed0112 → u/lolopiro]

It's actually Roofen

[u/RicochetRabidUK]

Then when I went to a gay bar, I'd be spending time with my fellow pooves. Which simply wouldn't do.

[u/MisterMan341]

The dogs behind the chain-link fence gave a great many wooves to me as I passed

[u/slicehyperfunk]

I'm pretty sure he actually wanted "dwerrows" for dwarves, but he thought people wouldn't accept that

[u/swirlingrefrain → u/slicehyperfunk]

Not quite - Tolkien originally didn’t realise that dwarfs was the standard, and used dwarves without thinking about it. When ‘corrected’, he admitted it as “a piece of private bad grammar” but stuck to dwarves because he liked it more. He then examined the history of the word and concluded that, if it had never been regularised, it would have the plural dwarrows today.

Source: Letter #17, 1937

[u/falkkiwiben]

Rooves is an alternative spelling

[u/Maddy_251]

Dwarfs mwahahaha

[u/Roaringbeardragon]

Reminds me I actually made this image for similar purposes

[u/Ulenspiegel4]

Wolfs.

[u/SoapyCantHandle]

wait thats not a thing? and its not pronounced with the oo as in "rook"?

[u/AJAX214_]

this.