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Originally Posted by Galin
Thank you Nerwen! Your concision trumps my 'chart like' post!
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I think the chart's necessary; the concept of the Dwarves having both real and false (i.e. "translated")
pseudonyms is a bit brain-twisting.
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Originally Posted by Galin
The translation conceit can get quite complicated (for instance 'Meriadoc' was really Kalimac... but seemingly Tom Bombadil is really what the Hobbits called this being 'back then')... but that's what makes it fun in my opinion!
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Ah, well, as a semi-exception to what I said I my last post, Tolkien mentions that some of the hobbits' names
are "real" (though usually with different endings), and just
happen to resemble certain modern names ("Tom" being short for "Tomba", not "Thomas").