The Picard Maneuver to Lord of the [email protected]English • 3 months agoTolkien wasn't always the most creative with names.imagemessage-square29arrow-up1644arrow-down113
arrow-up1631arrow-down1imageTolkien wasn't always the most creative with names.The Picard Maneuver to Lord of the [email protected]English • 3 months agomessage-square29
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•3 months agoThe only one that really bothers me is them using the Gregorian calander.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•3 months agoThe idea is that it’s a translation, so some words are just modern ones used in place of what the ‘real’ ones are.
minus-squareLuxlinkfedilinkEnglish13•3 months agoTolkien’s books are essentially english/European mythology, so it kind of sort of makes sense
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agoI believe there’s a whole section of one of the books devoted to the in world-calendars and their relation to the Gregorian one.
The only one that really bothers me is them using the Gregorian calander.
The idea is that it’s a translation, so some words are just modern ones used in place of what the ‘real’ ones are.
Tolkien’s books are essentially english/European mythology, so it kind of sort of makes sense
I believe there’s a whole section of one of the books devoted to the in world-calendars and their relation to the Gregorian one.
I didn’t know that, but that’s good.
Agreed. It already bothers me that we use it