Pleased to meet you, Frodo... Reppuli?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Melilot Brandybuck

As a person who owns a horse, I know that a gamgee is an old fashioned word for the cotton wrapping you place underneath a horse's leg bandages

A-ha! Then I don't understand why she translated it as "quail", but who knows. Thanks, I'll sleep much better now.

Originally Posted by Melilot Brandybuck

Now I've just thought: Sam married Rosie Cotton. Any significance?

Interesting. However, I was under the impression that "Cotton" is here some sort of word derived from "cottage" - I believe I read something about how Tolkien "translated" the hobbit names from Westron. Or I am just confused, because once again, in Czech translation, "Chaloupka" means "little cottage".

Originally Posted by Volo

I especially like Midgewater Marshes - Komáří močály (Midge Marshes). Komáří močály sounds like "Mosquitos dipped" in Russian the way I read it.

Yeah that's right, it didn't occur to me! That's just too much

But if you could look at the Ukrainian translations, it would be nice - or anyone else having any input...

[Volo]

(I'm not sure how to pronounce Ukrainian letters and how to write the pronounsations in English.)

Лист роботи Мелкіна/List raboti Melkina - Leaf by Niggle (book)
Мелкін/Melkin - Niggle
Бикорик/Bykoryk - Bullroarer (byk - bull)
Могильники/Mogylniki - Barrow-Downs (mogyla - tomb)
Підкопаю/Pidkopaju - Underhill (pidkopaju - dig (like in "I will dig a bit"))
Блукач/Blukach - Strider (wanderer)
Грайливий Поні/Grailivij Poni - Prancing Pony (playful pony)
Барил Барбарис/Baril Barbaras - Barliman Butterbur

More later, maybe in this same post.

EDIT: About Shelob being Odula: Does "odula" mean something or is there some mythological spider-creature of a similar name as in Hobb's newest trilogy there is a spider-shaped god called Orandula.