[Farcesensitive]

Since Tolkien was a highly educated linguist I’ll side with him over Disney.

It’s loaf/loaves, hoof/hooves, and dwarf/dwarves.

[SERKIT]

https://www.eslbuzz.com/plural-of-dwarf/

https://grammarist.com/usage/dwarfs-dwarves/

[numberonepal]

Wife/wives. Ask me how I know.

[gymbeau]

“Since Tolkien was a highly educated linguist I’ll side with him over Disney.”

Reasonable. I seem to remember, however, reading Tolkien back in the day that he changed the grammar/spelling deliberately, I think it was to give it a fantasy flavour, differentiate Middle Earth from reality, or something. It was a long time ago and I could be mistaken.

He did seem like a fan of The Who, though. After all, didn’t his tree creatures communicate via Ent whistles?

[Bob Ireland]

***It’s loaf/loaves, hoof/hooves, and dwarf/dwarves***

Lenition / fortition... I think the dynamic fascinated Tolkien somewhat; did some interesting things with it when creating his own languages. e.g. v 👉 m ... 🤗