Or should we accept, as J. R. R. Tolkien wrote in 1963, that‘anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not somuch a twilight of the gods as of the reason’, remembering, as thegreat Celtic scholar David Ellis Evans sternly pointed out in 1999,that Tolkien’s aside was meant specifically to make fun of certainextreme linguistic entomologies and not to be all embracing.