you know how tolkien's my hero? yeah. he's my hero.

"In England, as in America, the systematic study of dialects is a recent phenomenon, so no one can say just how many rich and varied forms of speech died before anyone got around to recording them. One of the first persons to think to do so was, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, J.R.R. Tolkien, later to become famous as the author of ['The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings'], but at the time a professor of English at the University of Leeds. His idea was to try to record, in a comprehensive and systematic way, the dialect words of England before they disappeared forever." - from "The Mother Tongue," by Bill Bryson