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No, it was the notion of earth mythology having any relevance to a fictional work beyond that which the author adds which irritated me. I would have had similar reaction to that implication applied to any fiction. And my sarcasm and humor meters are clearly broken again.

As to the names specificly, I would argue that the names we are given preserve the essence of their true names. They are carefully chosen to provide as close to the connotations we take from them as they themselves take in their own languages, just as Frodo Baggins is a translation of the actual name, Maura Labingi.