(in its fishy meaning) as "Name in California for the tunny" and cites the
earliest reference from 1900. So Tolkien apparently would not have
thought of Tuna as a fish, any more than he connected Teleporno with television
or pornography, or Wetwang with, er, well, I've watched too much Beavis and
Butthead. ;-) (There really is a village of Wetwang in Yorkshire,
by the
way.)
“I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. (And, of course, the more 'life' a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: while the better a deliberate allegory is made the more nearly will it be acceptable just as a story.)” (From Tolkien Letter # 131.)
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