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Originally Posted by hansl
The meaning of "Beutelsend" being the end of a bag I didn't even notice as I read Beutel-send and thought of a postal office sending bags around.
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"Bag End" is a linguistic joke by Tolkien. The British English term for a dead-end street is the entirely made-up French phrase "cul-de-sac", which means "the bottom of a sack". "Bag End" is Tolkien's literal translation of "cul-de-sac".