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Two words: cellar door.
Beautiful purely in their
sounds ... without meaning.
The background picture above: the entrance of the “hobbit hole“, which Tolkien devised, is a type of “cellar door“, the idea of whose phonetic beauty he popularized in a 1955 lecture on the English and Welsh language.
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JenlovesJT47 Ooh I love this! 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @TheSpineView 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @TheBookHippie 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @bellabella 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @JenlovesJT47 💛🐝🖤 1mo
lil1inblue Love. 💛🐝💛 1mo
Kristy_K Love this! 💛💛 1mo
dabbe @lil1inblue 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @Kristy_K 💛🐝🖤 1mo
AnnCrystal Perfect reading location 😍👏🏼🐝👍🏼🪄🐝💝. 1mo
julieclair Ahhh…. my grandparents had a cellar door… 💙 1mo
julieclair So to me they are beautiful words, WITH meaning. 😘 1mo
tpixie Very interesting 1mo
BooksandCoffee4Me Love this! Tolkien‘s love of language inspires me, and now your haiku is prompting me to think of “two words.” 😊💛💛💛 1mo
CBee I very much want a hobbit hole 😊 1mo
Eggs Well described 👏🏻👏🏻 There‘s something so magical about a dwelling like this✨ 1mo
Reggie Funny, I only know this from Donnie Darko who probably got it from Tolkien. 1mo
dabbe @AnnCrystal IKR? 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @julieclair 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @julieclair It could be a woman's name in poem by Poe: “Selidor.“ 😍 1mo
dabbe @tpixie 🙌🏻 1mo
dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me 💛🐝🖤 In his lecture he said that those two words were the most beautiful-sounding words in the English language. 1mo
dabbe @CBee It could be our reading getaway room! 😍 1mo
dabbe @Eggs IKR? 💛🐝🖤 1mo
dabbe @Reggie You are correct! And I don't even think Tolkien was the first one! 🤣 1mo
DebinHawaii In my soul I am a hobbit & “cellar door” just speaks to me! 💛🐝💛 1mo
dabbe @DebinHawaii IKR? And to live in the shire ... 💚💚💚 1mo
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