In the fictional world of Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien, Rohirric is the language of the Rohirrim of Rohan. In the novels it is always represented by Anglo-Saxon. This is because Tolkien saw the relationship between Rohirric and the Common Speech. to be the same as that of Anglo-Saxon and English, which was used to represent Westron. Only a few actual Rohirric words are given by Tolkien: kûd-dûkan, an old word meaning "hole-dweller" which led to kuduk, the name the Hobbits had for themselves. Even these terms were translated in the book: "hobbit" is said to derive from the Anglo-Saxon word Holbytla, or hole-builder.