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This post did not contain any content.So many get this backwards. He didn't invent a language for his world. The languages (there are multiple, including historical languages that explain the transition into the modern languages) came first: by about 40 years. He didn't invent languages for his world. He invented a world that would explain why languages like this would exist.
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Makes sense. The biggest strength of robust worldbuilding isn't showing it all to your audience, it's hinting at small pieces of it that shows a connection between them and hints at something deeper. Having what feels like a detailed history makes the world feel real, because you can see shadows of it in the foreground. If you actually dig into all of it explicitly in your story that just makes it feel shallow, because you're showing the whole iceberg. It's why the mystery of the clone wars and Anakin's apprenticeship and betrayal of Obi-wan were intriguing in the original Star Wars trilogy, but end up just being some action movies once it's all fleshed out on screen. Depth stops being depth if you bring it all up to the surface.
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I don't know if Tolkien's notes support this, but I always assumed that his Entish name was something completely unpronounceable for anyone who isn't a tree, and "Treebeard" was a nickname that he picked for himself. Maybe because he thinks it's funny that other species think he looks like a tree. (I'm sure that ents look clearly different from trees to other ents.)Hello. Thank you for typing this so that I didn't.
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Guy who betrays everyone to side with Sauron: Sauron-man.
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I don't know if Tolkien's notes support this, but I always assumed that his Entish name was something completely unpronounceable for anyone who isn't a tree, and "Treebeard" was a nickname that he picked for himself. Maybe because he thinks it's funny that other species think he looks like a tree. (I'm sure that ents look clearly different from trees to other ents.)
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In Sindarin (the most common Elvish language), not Entish.
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Guy who betrays everyone to side with Sauron: Sauron-man.
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This post did not contain any content.He also nearly named Celeborn _Teleporno_, which would have been ~~awful~~ amazing.
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This post did not contain any content.It keeps blowing my mind when I learn that other languages haven't obfuscated the meanings of names behind two thousand years of linguistic divergence. Your name almost certainly means something basic too, you just don't remember what it is.
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Seriously, like Gandalf just means magic elf. So he's just the magic elf that wears grey. Then he's the magic elf that wears white. Names are just that, things we observe, want or expect.Close. It means elf with a stick.
