someone is WRONG on the INTERNET

[jazzfish]

So this is going around the internets lately:



This is of course completely wrong-headed. As everyone knows, the mountain's name in Elvish was Orodruin ("Fiery Mountain") or Amon Amarth ("Mountain of Fate"). "Mount Doom" is just how it translates into Westron / English.

And really, if you're going to complain about the names in LotR, why not start with the Shire's Brandywine River? It's not even a literal translation, it's a corruption of Baranduin ("Yellow River"). Sheesh.

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[shanaqui]

I've had the advantage of a whole module of my MA being all about Tolkien and the way he constructs texts within texts and so on. *grin* Plus I reread it just last week. (Fun but exhausting: reading LotR from start to finish in 24 hours.)