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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5428076" data-attributes="member: 40166">I'm not sure that's really true; what sound do Ruth, Rose, Latesha, Thomas, Alexie, Kobo, Kazushige, Sakuden, Atsuko, Ryoi, Yuri, Ilya, Evgeny, Saurmag*, Vakhtang, Mithridates, Guaram, Adarnase, Stephanoz, Nakaaya, Hukwe, and Kinjikitile all have? And that's just five different human cultures, all having been normalized for the English alphabet.* Did Tolkien know Georgian? Not just this, but some of the Georgian names sound very Tolkienian.Maybe. But many people use working names for other culture; Yoshimaro Satō wrote in English as Henry Satoh, and Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski wrote in English in another name (and this one you might guess). Many of the Tanzanians on the Wikipedia list I referenced were using English names. I recall one person writing of his frustration when some people he worked with in China managed to tease his English name out of, because then instead of getting called his Chinese name, he got called badly mangled versions of his English name.I can see Elves using human names (so humans don't bastardize their real ones) and halflings (because it makes things simpler for humans, and it's a little secret that sets other halflings apart from the humans.) Dwarves, on the other hand, are probably going to insist on using their own names and you getting it right. (Of course, that's just my stereotypes of each race.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 5428076, member: 40166"] I'm not sure that's really true; what sound do Ruth, Rose, Latesha, Thomas, Alexie, Kobo, Kazushige, Sakuden, Atsuko, Ryoi, Yuri, Ilya, Evgeny, Saurmag*, Vakhtang, Mithridates, Guaram, Adarnase, Stephanoz, Nakaaya, Hukwe, and Kinjikitile all have? And that's just five different human cultures, all having been normalized for the English alphabet. * Did Tolkien know Georgian? Not just this, but some of the Georgian names sound very Tolkienian. Maybe. But many people use working names for other culture; Yoshimaro Satō wrote in English as Henry Satoh, and Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski wrote in English in another name (and this one you might guess). Many of the Tanzanians on the Wikipedia list I referenced were using English names. I recall one person writing of his frustration when some people he worked with in China managed to tease his English name out of, because then instead of getting called his Chinese name, he got called badly mangled versions of his English name. I can see Elves using human names (so humans don't bastardize their real ones) and halflings (because it makes things simpler for humans, and it's a little secret that sets other halflings apart from the humans.) Dwarves, on the other hand, are probably going to insist on using their own names and you getting it right. (Of course, that's just my stereotypes of each race.) [/QUOTE]

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