Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-63.249.41.72-20150316033558/@comment-98.248.1.194-20150804040359

I could swear I read it here somewhere, but I didn't see when I read through this just now (then again, I was speed reading, so maybe I glossed over it). What I read (maybe it was wikipedia) was that J.R.R. Tokien created an entire language alien to our own. It was neither English nor Spanish nor French or any combination of known languages. Even names in his books like Bilbo and Frodo had their own translations in this made-up language. Bilbo and Frodo were merely names he chose which were the closest English equivalent to those names in that language.

So, then, merely look at the names in RWBY as the closest Earth equivalent to what are completely alien names in a completely alien language which (aside from the word Lien) RT simply hasn't taken the initiative to develop (or at least reveal).