I wonder how Tolkien would’ve thought about the use of LotR names being used by all these AI and tech companies.. especially since they all seem to use the names of things that were corrupted by darkness.
A lot of Tolkien names come from old Germanic languages. Eärendil for example from Ēarendel, the Old English name for a figure from Norse mythology [1]
Or maybe from the 9th century poem Christ I [2], which translated to modern English starts off with the words
Hail Earendel, brightest of angels,
Sent to men over middle-earth,
And true radiance of the sun,
Fine beyond stars, you always illuminate,
From your self, every season!
IKEA catalogs using Swedish names, and Swedish being a Germanic language that stayed truer to its Germanic roots than English did, it's not that far off. In a weird way
rylando · · focus · HN ↗
amelius · · focus · HN ↗
wongarsu · · focus · HN ↗
Or maybe from the 9th century poem Christ I [2], which translated to modern English starts off with the words
IKEA catalogs using Swedish names, and Swedish being a Germanic language that stayed truer to its Germanic roots than English did, it's not that far off. In a weird way1: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurvandill" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurvandill
2: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_I" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_I