Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Doomstead

👉 Doomstead is a fictional town in the novel "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien, which was first published in 1954. The town is named after the Irish poet and philosopher William Butler Yeats, who wrote about the town's inhabitants in his poem "The Death of a Salesman." The name Doomstead comes from the Old English term "doomed," which means "to be dead or to die" or "deadly."

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