Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-6493589-20150619172544/@comment-9464517-20150621005257

Shadow at Morning wrote:

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. It's an interesting notion but I doubt Monty, Miles and Kerry thought that hard about it. In any case, what sort of different connotations would one take from the name Frodo in comparison to the name Maura?