Comment by Saffron Park on Passages I Highlighted in The Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien · 2025-01-15T21:26:37.301Z · LW · GW

Or maybe Tolkien had a special sense for phrasing and names like "Sauron" and "Urukhai" would have sounded just as profound then as they do now? 

This is probably a larger part of the explanation, given his background in philology