Sure... but Tolkien could tell you Treebeard's name in hall a dozen languages he'd made up for his setting, including full etymologies.

While I made the same association when first reading the books, I'll point out that the name Saruman is one the humans gave him. His Quenya name, Curumo, has little to do with Sauron, nor with the latter's original name Mairon before he revealed his allegiance to Melkor and the elves dubbed him Sauron (Quenya) and Gorthaur (Sindarin). There is a connection between them, but it isn't by name. They were both originally Maiar of Aulë, both ambitious and cunning, both desiring order. But where Sauron thought siding with Melkor would get him the means to impose his noble order, Saruman stuck with the Valar and was eventually sent to protect the newly awakened elves from Melkor. Still, that shared ambition for order eventually made allies of them, while their respective cunning saw each scheming against the other. If Gandalf and those meddling mortals hadn't gotten in the way, the final stage of the War of the Ring would have been a struggle between these two former colleagues. Depending on where the Ring ended up, that might have been an interesting struggle, the two most cunning Maiar going head to head, but I think it's for the best we never found out how that would have gone.

Not "nearly" and not "Celeborn Teleporno". Celeborn is his name in the language Sindarin. Teleporno is his name in the language Quenya. I think you can see the similarities between "Cele/Tele" and "born/porn(o)", right? Similarly Galadriel (Sinadrin) has a Quenya name - Altáriel. We have very similar situations here on Earth with differences in spelling/pronunciation between languages (and ages): James vs Iacobus or Catherine vs Aikaterínē.

Didn't he also say that his actual Entish name would take too long to pronounce for regular mortals to bother with?

Guy who is pretty strong and is a blacksmith: Ethan Smith. All names mean something. Or rather: meant something at some point in history.

> In my headcanon, that’s not his real name It's one of his names. As an Ainu (a spirit), he was called Curumo.

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Now tell me about a very specific part on a commercial airliner.

Nice. Yup, I learned about the Tiffany Problem from Grey as well, but picked up the tidbit about Natalie from being married to one.

There are a bunch of obvious ones for last names. Smith, Tailor, Carpenter, Fletcher, etc from when urban families tended to keep the same profession. Also, last names that end in "son" like Johnson, Thompson, Ragnarson. It's just shorthand for "son of John". Not sure if Ragnarson is a name that has survived to today, but it was the name that made me realize that connection when reading a fiction based on the execution of Ragnar and the subsequent Viking invasion of England by his sons. They were Ragnarsons but he was Ragnar Lodbrok (which just means he was hairy, if he even was a single person and not an amalgramation of a bunch of big Viking names).

It's kinda funny with anime and manga. They use Japanese names for a bunch of stuff like special martial arts techniques or special moves. Not knowing Japanese, the names sound cool and mysterious. Learning the actual translations, Treebeard is pretty par for the course. Like from Naruto, Sasuke uses the Copy Wheel Eye (sharingan), Hinyata uses the White Eye (biyakugon), and Naruto's big move is Spiral Sphere (rasengan). Copy Wheel Eye's upgraded version is called Kalidoscope Copy Wheel Eye. They aren't horrible names, but they feel less cool. Though it would be funny if Saitama has special moves that are just other languages saying "normal punch" or "serious punch". "Hip bump with moderate vigor" or something.

No. he just translated it into treebeard for localization for English speakers. educate yourself.

The man understood what language and names are used for, to say the least.

God forbid a nerd engage in some nerddom in such a non-nerd community as... _checks notes_ rpgmemes

God forbid someone cracks a joke. leave it to some emotionally damaged nerd to get all bent out of shape from...*checks notes* a meme.

I don't know what you're referencing and planes aren't really my specialty, but personally, I'm fascinated by the whole concept of the Instrument Landing System. Unfortunately, I don't think I have the technical understanding to confidently explain how it works, but it's using the modulation of different radio frequencies and the ways they cancel out to indicate to pilots whether they're correctly facing and approaching the runway. If the plane isn't in the right approach path, certain side frequencies will come out stronger and can be used to determine the exact angle you're off. It's friggin' fascinating. Anyway, were you referring to a specific part or just seeing if I can also nerd out about some other random topic?

Really? You use the meme that basically says "you're dumping a lot of irrelevant info in the wrong place" and have the audacity to get pissy when they hit you back with...a different meme? The gall to call someone "emotionally damaged" when you immediately read an attack from an exchange of memes.


so many names could be translated from the original language they come from. Larry? that's City of Laurels Remember president Helmet Head, he should have used an helmet (Kennedy)

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