Pleased to meet you, Frodo... Reppuli?

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

barrow-wight = haudanhaamu

The first thing that came into my head was Haudh-en-Ndengin. Obviously Elvish has some of its roots in Finnish.

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Gollum - Klonkku

Haha!

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Middle-Earth - Keski-Maa

I just read that as Pesky and for some reason it made me laugh.

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Leaflock - Lehvähapsi
("Lehvä" is an old-fashioned word that means leaf and "hapsi" does not actually translate as lock, rather as a tuft of thin hair.)

I assume you mean it doesn't mean anything to do with a lock as in "lock and key" because in English you do get lock as in "lock of hair"

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Huorn - huorni

Haha! I was reminded of the "Middle-Earth Bumper Stickers" thread.



And on the whole I think that the Finnish translation gives it a very Middle-Earth-ish feel.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

I assume you mean it doesn't mean anything to do with a lock as in "lock and key" because in English you do get lock as in "lock of hair"

Yep, I meant lock as lock of hair.

Originally Posted by Eönwë

And on the whole I think that the Finnish translation gives it a very Middle-Earth-ish feel.

I think so too.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

I just read that as Pesky and for some reason it made me laugh.

When I have read it, I know I thought about Esquimaux...

[Galadriel55]

I love the translations! Nerwen's make me giggle. Even though you mad that up. :-P


Some Russian (I wrote it phonetically. ch is like in cherry):

Baggins = Torbins (torba is an old word for a sac/bag)
Brandybuck = Brendizaik (I don't get the reasoning here, because "zaik" sounds like a rabbit...)
Took = Krol (this one's deffinitely a rabbit...)
Gamgee = Skrombi (probably comes from the word that means shy/humble)
Samwise "Sam" = Semmium "Sem"
Underhill = Nakruchins (Over-hill...)
Hornblower = Gromoboy (thunder-maker/drummer. Well, literally hitter.)
Goldberry = Zolotinka (Gold+suffix that I can't find an equivalent for in English)
Halfling = Nevisoklik (not-high), but in another translation called Poluroslik (half-high)
Ranger = sledopit (one who reads tracks)
Strider = Brodyaj'nik (Wanderer)
Barliman Butterbur = Lavr Narkiss (lavr is laurus, so instead of Gandalf making pun about butter, he talks about soup. )
Celeborn = Selerbern (just cause it sounds better)
Celebrimbor = Selebrimber (same reason)
Treebeard = Dreven' (probably a combination of derevo=tree and drevniy=ancient)
Gollum/Smeagol = Gorlum/Smeagorl (sounds better that way in Russian)
Grima Wormtongue = Grima Gmiloust (Rotten Mouth)


Middle-Earth = Sredizem'ye (hm. Mediterrain. So quite literally ME)
Shire = Hobbitannia
Bag-End = Torba-na-kruche (Bag on a hill)
Brandywine = Brendiduim
Old Forest = Vekovechniy Les (Everlasting forest)
Barrow-downs = Mogilniki (barrows + suffix)
Bree = Prigorye (Next-to-mountain)
Midgewater Marshes = Komariniye Topi (Mosquito swamps/marshes)
Rohan = Mustagrim (from mustang), or Ristaniya (not quite sure about that one)
Minas Tirith/Tower of guard = Minas Tirit/Fortress of Last Hope


The Fellowship = Hraniteli (keepers... for a lack of better word)

LOTR = Vlastelin Kolets (literal)
FOTR = Hraniteli (keepers)
TTT = Dve Tverdini ([the] Two Strongholds)
ROTK = Vozvrash'eniye Gosudarya (also literal)




These are just some, but the list is quite long as it is... :-)


PS: one that deserves extra-special attention is the one and only (... at leas at the time of LOTR)... *drumroll* ... BALROG! :-D It's translated as "Barlog", since it's just easier to say. (hence the reason for me calling him 'Barly' in my first posts on the Do-they-have-wings thread)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Hey, nice ones, G55! Interesting to read this (also especially because I can understand most of that, and so get the impression it probably gives to a reader...).

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Goldberry = Zolotinka (Gold+suffix that I can't find an equivalent for in English)

Well, it would be a sort of... diminutive, right? It is very similar (and if you look at the first page, I think I've written it there) to the Czech name, which is Zlatěnka... in fact totally the same word (I wonder if some link in inspiration exists here?).

Rohan = Mustagrim (from mustang), or Ristaniya (not quite sure about that one)

Now this is really interesting - is it, like, really instead of Rohan? Or instead of "Riddermark"? Or something? I wonder what made them to do that, anyway. And the second word is really peculiar. Maybe something made from some obscure parts of the language? Brings once again into my mind this idea the Czech translator had (but in the end she decided not to do it) to translate the Rohirric names into Old Church Slavonic, to give the reader the feeling an English reader has ("the Rohirrim speak the same language as we did a thousand years ago"). Maybe there is some similar idea behind this?

PS: one that deserves extra-special attention is the one and only (... at leas at the time of LOTR)... *drumroll* ... BALROG! :-D It's translated as "Barlog", since it's just easier to say. (hence the reason for me calling him 'Barly' in my first posts on the Do-they-have-wings thread)

Hey, interesting! I can clearly see the point. Curious, but they didn't change Elrond, did they? Because I remember when I was small, I had exactly this sort of problem - or not a problem, simply a presupposition, I thought originally that it is "Erlond", simply because "Elrond" is much more difficult to pronounce. And I know several friends of mine, who know LotR only superficially, DO say "barlog", also probably because of the reason that it comes to them as more "natural"...

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Hey, nice ones, G55! Interesting to read this (also especially because I can understand most of that, and so get the impression it probably gives to a reader...).

I could understand most of your Czech translations too! It's funner when you can take a good guess at what the meaning is.

Well, it would be a sort of... diminutive, right? It is very similar (and if you look at the first page, I think I've written it there) to the Czech name, which is Zlatěnka... in fact totally the same word (I wonder if some link in inspiration exists here?).

I guess it's diminutive... I don't know how it's called in Enlish...

And Goldberry's name in Russian is literally the same as Czech. Weird!

Now this is really interesting - is it, like, really instead of Rohan? Or instead of "Riddermark"? Or something? I wonder what made them to do that, anyway. And the second word is really peculiar. Maybe something made from some obscure parts of the language?

It could come from some root that I don't recognize. One of the reasons that the name had to be changed was because Rohan just sounds too un-Rohanny and un-Tolkienny in Russian (and would probably be more associated with Genghis Khan than anything else) . "Mustangrim" sounds Tolkien enough, and you can associate it with horses, so it makes sense.

Curious, but they didn't change Elrond, did they?

Hm.

[Durelin]

Originally Posted by Lommy's original list

Neekerbreeker = skikirikittäjä

That is such an awesome word. Though I don't know at all how to pronounce it properly, to me I can hear the buggy-ness/cicada-like sound. It's kinda creepy.

As for the French sometimes sounding a little less impressive...a friend of mine really got a kick out of watching Star Wars in French and hearing Darth Vader talk about 'Le Cote Obscur'...

[Galadriel55]

PS: about Elrond. If they changed his name to "Erlond", instead of Satrry Sky his name would come to mean "Lonely haven/harbour".

PPS: neekerbreekers = krovoprostsi (asking-for-blood. It refered more to the mosquitoes than the crickets - or whatever they were)