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  1. Today I learned that in LOTR, Meriadoc Brandybuck was actually called "Kalimac Brandagamba" – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westron#Westron_renderings_in_Tolkien.27s_literature
    1. …in reply to @mattpointblank
      Tolkien was such a language nerd that the books we read are transliterations of a book in his fictional Westron language, hence name changes