Приятно сознавать, что монгольские подозрения посещали не меня одного. См. например, из дискуссий:
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/misc/local/TolkLang/Vol17/17.28
и отповедь
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/misc/local/TolkLang/Vol39/39.56
и о многозначительных подозрениях:
The matter now proceeds to trying to find where Tolkien got the idea of the
root {tar} from. It could be mere coincidence, e.g. Greek 'gynee' = Australian
Aboriginal 'jin' = "woman"; Celtic 'beag', 'bach' < *'bego-' = Mongolian
'baga' = "small": among thousands of vocabulary and grammar items there are
bound to be a few coincidences between two unrelated languages. Some Quenya
words were taken from other languages than IE: e.g. 'man' = "who" & 'naar' =
"flame" from Arabic; the Proto-Eldarin root {taa}, {tagh} = 'high, lofty,
noble' looks suspiciously like Mandarin Chinese 'ta' = "big" (easily found),
and Central Asian Turkic 'tagh' = "mountain" (easily deduced from mountain
range names on atlases of the area, e.g. 'Altyn Tagh' = "Gold Mountains").
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/misc/local/TolkLang/Vol8/8.14
С уважением,
Дмитрий