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Re: Question about Sam Gamgee...
Tolkien translated the Red Book from Westron, the Common Speech of northwestern Middle-Earth, into English, often using Old English words or old words from other languages to represent the names of places and people. Though the Westron word
Orald and the German word
uralt are similar and have the same meaning, the two languages they came from are in no way related and neither was derived from the other. So the similarity must be coincidence.
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