I have another kind of clue, Thorsten.
Tolkien was a fan of Nordic languages, he may well have made a calque of the
procedure where past participles like "gången, kommen" are "active" =
intransitive, because the verb is intransitive and as such cannot have a
personal passive.
But if anyone with access to the original note has more to say, so be it.
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Hans
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