Isn't it? I just looked it up and it's from Ancient Greek for "hole-dweller." Very cute and Tolkinean, except that the words for "hole" and "dwell" derive from words for "bite" and "go into." So more like "one who enters the hole he gnawed." Troglodyte.
Troglodyte is a great word.
Isn't it? I just looked it up and it's from Ancient Greek for "hole-dweller." Very cute and Tolkinean, except that the words for "hole" and "dwell" derive from words for "bite" and "go into." So more like "one who enters the hole he gnawed." Troglodyte.
We are not rodents! We are men! Or at least civilized Hobbits