Worst fantasy names in our Real World

[Hand of Evil]

Need to get out an atlas

 

[El Mahdi]

In England: Ely (Isle of Eels), it's landing point Littleport, and Elveden Forest (near Thetford).

Also Bury St. Edmunds...which actually means Borough of St. Edmunds, but I like the modern name.

 

[jonesy]

You know, I'm really really really really glad that Tolkien knew what he was doing when he borrowed elements from Finnish for his languages.

A surprisingly large number of Finnish placenames are extremely rude things. There's a village called Whore, a hill named after someones product.. and those are the mild ones. They get much worse and much more bizarre. There are places named after anatomically impossible sex acts..

Umm, sorry, I'll be in the corner now.

 

[dangerous jack]

Not sure if this is what you're getting at, but in my neck of the woods, we have Crowsnest Pass, Dead Man's Flats, the Rocky Mountains, Field, Longview, High River, Twin Butte, Stand Off.

If you're wondering about double-vowels and apostrophe's, there's also the Tsuu T'ina Nation just down the road.

 

[Doug McCrae]

Trollhattan is ridiculous. I mean, c'mon!

Men are from Manhattan, trolls are from Trollhattan.

 

[billd91]

Today, I drove through Gort, Ireland on my way to Cork. May go to Dingle tomorrow. Drove near Moneydig on way to Derry a few days ago.
Once drove through Peebles, Wisconsin.

 

[Myke17]

Iceland or Greenland

 

[coyote6]

There is (or was) a dentist in the area named Dr. Slaughter.

 

[kmdietri]

Liverpool

 

[Almacov]

Springfield.

Irondale.

Looking at some (former) Ontario towns - Spidertown, Vroomanton, Swords, Lost Channel, Khartum, Kiosk, Happy Valley, Farran's Point, Crook's Hollow... two towns named Balaclava...