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Fenrir

12-28-2001 09:14 AM

Real Language

What real life language are names of people and places from Lord of the Rings based on?
I know that most of the names were based on languages invented by Tolkien so right now I'm stuck (I'm doing a Tolkien quiz).

Quelledeloth

01-13-2002 09:30 AM

the elven language was based on finnish

Turambar

01-13-2002 02:21 PM

I believe that several of the names (Gandalf, and many of the dwarves'names) were taken from the Elder Edda, which was written in an ancient Icelandic language. A couple names were taked from Beowulf, which was written in Old English. Sharkú sems very expert in this area, maybe he will weigh in here.

TolkienGurl

10-20-2002 06:11 PM

Tolkien knew about 19 languages, so he probably drew a little out of each and created his own languages.

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