Quote - I don't believe it's possible to copyright a single word.

You may be able to trademark one, but it's not particularly simple, and you are then legally obligated to defend it against unauthorized use.

"Hobbit" may well be trademarked by the Tolkien estate, as he coined the word.

The others are words commonly used in the English language.

From my understanding (which is only what one of my teachers told me in college), you copyright the name as compared to a certain style, so to say.

For instance, I could make a dragon and call him Hobbit. I could not create a race of small party-lover "dwarves" and call them hobbits.

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