Hi, Monica:
Oh, I was sort of being silly, as well. Sometimes I like to throw something out as a debating point -- it's not always something I can (or will) support.
In the case of Tolkien working on the OED, though, it gave me an opportunity to take a shot at the "it's not in the dictionary" argument. I've always thought that was a rather lame argument, since dictionaries are descriptive rather than prescriptive. If we always held to dictionary usages and words, then there would be no new words coined, and slang would be impossible.
Marcus