I used to parrot the “created multiple languages, named the place Mount Doom” meme up until I started getting deeper into Tolkien lore. Now I’m the obnoxious one that points out all the other names for Mount Doom, as well as translating other “cooler” names to show that they’re all similarly named (my favorite being Khazad Dum, or “Dwarf Hall”, followed by Cirith Ungol, or “Spider Cleft”).
I used to parrot the “created multiple languages, named the place Mount Doom” meme up until I started getting deeper into Tolkien lore. Now I’m the obnoxious one that points out all the other names for Mount Doom, as well as translating other “cooler” names to show that they’re all similarly named (my favorite being Khazad Dum, or “Dwarf Hall”, followed by Cirith Ungol, or “Spider Cleft”).
This is also fairly common in real life, for example, this map of Japan with the Prefectures translated to English.
still hill huh, sounds dangerous
Nourishing joy sounds like a pleasant place.
I want to go to How Good? now to find out.
“can you fetch the fork lift? I need to get a palette of troops from the army warehouse”
…yeah, i’d rock thousand leaves…
On my way to Capital City.
Got to stop at How? Good on the way