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Christian Wilkie

@Alexis_WordsUnbound M-W does have different standards than other dictionaries. It's also mired in massive, systematic cycles of rewrites and updates. JRR Tolkien may have made some usages popular, but it takes a bit more for M-W to say "yes, this is how most people speak/write today."