Listen, I love Tolkien, The Hobbit gave me a lifelong love affair with books, but Hobbiton?!
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Listen, I love Tolkien, The Hobbit gave me a lifelong love affair with books, but Hobbiton?!
Come on down to Humanville, and don't forget to visit Peopletown, on the way back!
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Listen, I love Tolkien, The Hobbit gave me a lifelong love affair with books, but Hobbiton?!
Come on down to Humanville, and don't forget to visit Peopletown, on the way back!
@RickiTarr
"I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn’t think anything of what he had done to the city’s name. Later I heard men who could
manage their r’s give it the same pronunciation. I still didn’t see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves’ word for dictionary. A few years later I went to Personville and learned better."Dashiell Hammett, "Red Harvest" (opening paragraph)
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Listen, I love Tolkien, The Hobbit gave me a lifelong love affair with books, but Hobbiton?!
Come on down to Humanville, and don't forget to visit Peopletown, on the way back!
It gets worse when you translate other locations from Elvish/Dwarvish etc:
Moria = Mines
Anduin = Big River
Lothlorien = Treeeeeees
Rohan = Horse girls mostly
Mordor = Orc Party -
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