Is there a lore reason?

I suggest you to hold on to your sanity, don't look too deep into places where you can't come back from. The Abyss has a habit of consuming you when you look at it.

Don't become another one of its victims.

Don't become one of us.

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Wonderful-Cicada-912@reddit

scrolled unexpectedly long for the word reveal

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I can't remember if it was in the LotR books, but in the Silmarillion like every second character there's a line along the lines of "and so the elves called him kekgohooek, which means black sword from the river in Sindarin".

Actually I think even literal swords had this too. Now that I think about it it did happen in LotR, Anduril comes to mind

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Salaino0606@reddit

If LOTR was filmed today we'd have a Saruwoman

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ikonfedera@reddit

He already has a dress, long hair and does drama with other long haired people in dresses.

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TeensyTrouble@reddit

Plays with another mans staff

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BonkeyKongthesecond@reddit

Ordered his orks to get rid of the wood

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PooeyPatoeei@reddit

Saruman is into sounding? never would have imagined that. But now that I think about it, that guy does look like someone who might enjoy that sort of stuff.

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Sengfroid@reddit

I don't want to give you this one but he does seem like someone who might enjoy that sort of stuff

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ikonfedera@reddit

What is pondering orb if not sounding (as in probing) the situation in a more visual and more round way?

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ErasablePotato@reddit

mm, no, very unwise

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PrivilegeCheckmate@reddit

Robes, like speedsuits, are unisex.

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DuckWithBrokenWings@reddit

All clothes are unisex. The sex is what's hiding beneath the clothes.

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rocketsnail1000@reddit

And Saruperson

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PooeyPatoeei@reddit

Sarucopter

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cheekybandit0@reddit

Saruapacheattackhelicopter

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naufalap@reddit

inb4 one joke to offend them all

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EtteRavan@reddit

Sariga ?

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wirelessp0tat0@reddit

Waifsaru?

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StrangeLilThing@reddit

I mean joke all you want, but he does turn into Saruman of Many Colours, so he's basically wearing the pride flag.

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Beneficial_Pear9705@reddit

Saurothey

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MoistStub@reddit

Sarussy

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rendar@reddit

The All-seeing Whispering Eye

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ArthurBonesly@reddit

Auruperson the many colored!

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TheOneWhoReadsStuff@reddit

Sarutransblackwoman

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Herroefant@reddit

Sarucamera and Sarutv

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MDSGeist@reddit

gif

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Gary_FucKing@reddit

This tame ass scene had incels screeching for fucking weeks.

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Admirable-Win-9716@reddit

Wait till I tell you about black speech../

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S1lver_Smurfer@reddit

Not just Sarumen, but Saruwomen and Saruchildren too!

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HammerWaffe@reddit

Saruwoman and how the fellowship/patriarchy of the ring is actually the baddy.

How the ring would allow they/them Saurona to save the world thru equity and diversity. Aragorn's line was the evil patriarchy and deserved its downfall. Shelob was a strong independent single mother who was simply protecting her home from the evil halfling men.

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I_Don-t_Care@reddit

the eagles are all female. The elves are all female. The ents are all female. The nazgul are all female, every last single one of them, all except the orcs. the orcs are bad, they are bad these fucking orcs

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BlazeRagnarokBlade@reddit

Average hentai plot

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lce_Fight@reddit

😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

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TheDevilsAdvokaat@reddit

And the orcs would be black

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blippie@reddit

More like Sarupoc

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BustedBayou@reddit

And she would be black and have purple hair

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Medusa107@reddit

That sounds like a digimon

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nuuudy@reddit

Sarumen, Saruwomen, Saruchildren even

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Sangwiny@reddit

Saruthey/Saruthem

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RuneHearth@reddit

Sarunonbinary🤣

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WeekendBard@reddit

And the sauronchild too!

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MikeGianella@reddit

The millenia spanning folk tradition of "naming shit what it actually is"

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EtteRavan@reddit

"Tell me, what's the name of this river ?"

"That avon ?"

"Thank you" *Notes "river avon" on the map like a fool*

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habb@reddit

my crayon eating ass couldn't distinguish between the two when i was like 10. i loved the maps in the front of the books

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habb@reddit

i had no elder figures to talk to about the books and why i abandoned them at an early age. i always loved the shit it brought out in dragon warrior and final fantasy 1

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TeensyTrouble@reddit

Still better than making his smartest wizard “Gandalf the fool”

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Isis_gonna_be_waswas@reddit

“Two can play at that game Saruman!”

“Or should I say… Saruman the stupid.”

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Janoz@reddit

No! You take that back!

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AcrolloPeed@reddit

“Sharuman the Shtinky”

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TheMurderousDuck@reddit

Saruman the silly

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TacoOverlord69@reddit

Saruman the wrinkly

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chan___kun@reddit

SARUMAN THE STINKYYY 🗣️🗣️🗣️

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geofox777@reddit

And much better than JK Rowling naming the only black character “Kingsley Shacklebolts”

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TeensyTrouble@reddit

I’m not surprised the woman who used every single Jewish stereotype for her banker race thinks “Cho Chang” is a good name for an Asian student. I kinda wonder if she thought about making the house elfs closer to African slaves but figured that might be too far.

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Big_Slop@reddit

I thought his wisest wizard was a forest hobo who pranced around the woods singing about how cool his name is

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RendolfGirafMstr@reddit

Two can play at that game!

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Ryanchri@reddit

"you'll never guess what I called the bearded tree fellow"

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chalk_in_boots@reddit

The weird thing about this is that all the other ents are just named as their species. It's like in movie credits when there's an unnamed character so they're just "boy in red shirt" or "drunk man 3"

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princezilla88@reddit

The reason for that (because Tolkien was extremely autistic and wrote down his reasons for everything) was that these were just their nicknames given by non ents and used when interacting with them because saying an ent's actual name takes like six or more hours. So they are just the first thing random humans came up with off the top of their head to call them.

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Tarnishedhollow8@reddit

Souronman

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OldManMoment@reddit

If the reason is just "I already spent all week inventing a whole language, it's Saturday afternoon, and I'm gonna be bloody late for Cricket", I'll accept it.

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princezilla88@reddit

So what actually happened is that he made the languages first and then pulled the names from them and them sounding similar was pure coincidence lol

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thekingofbeans42@reddit

"Okay but real quick you have this tree with a beard, editor wants a name on that asap!"

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AcrolloPeed@reddit

Goatree? No, but we’re onto something here!

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rhino_shit_gif@reddit

Better than Rowling ffs

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TeensyTrouble@reddit

former slave, named shacklebottom.

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reisenbime@reddit

Worse. Shacklebolt

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Dravarden@reddit

shacklebolt is a wizard supercop

he shackles bad wizards, then bolts their cells in azkaban

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scorpionballs@reddit

Werewolf character - Lupin

Even reading it as a kid I thought she must be a fucking moron for that

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FalseTautology@reddit

That should actually be a test given to children, did you find the naming of Lupin to be obnoxiously fucking stupid? If not you have to stay back a year.

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sluraplea@reddit

better than prisonsub

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LigmaSneed@reddit

Professor Sprout

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Half_smart_m0nk3y@reddit

Fucking Prof. Pomona Sprout. Pomona being the roman goddess of fruits and fruit trees …

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FunMarketing4488@reddit

ngl Cho fucking Chang had my sides into orbit so fast

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WintersbaneGDX@reddit

Melina, Malenia, Malekith, Marika, Mohg, Morgott, Margit, Messmer

Renna, Ranni, Rennala, Rellana, Radahn, Rykard, Roderika, Radagon

Godwyn, Gideon, Godfrey, Godefroy, Godrick

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Dravarden@reddit

that's also bad, actually

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giraffebacon@reddit

What are you doing, who are those people

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TeensyTrouble@reddit

Lord of the rings characters, most only shown in the extended cut.

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giraffebacon@reddit

Ahh

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jackrayd@reddit

They arent

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LLMprophet@reddit

You took the bait

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jackrayd@reddit

☝️🤓

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giraffebacon@reddit

Ahh

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LordRatini777@reddit

Elden Ring characters. GRRM worked on the lore and named the characters, and a large bumber of them, especially the demigods, share his initials.

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FalseTautology@reddit

This is such a regarded and tacky move that I wonder if it was at miyazakis request. Like, Martin is a pretty smart, deep fellow that has been writing popular fantasy and sci-fi for decades. Would he really give a fuck about self inserting into a video game he will never play?

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MafusailAlbert@reddit

It was already in Dark Souls with characters sharing first letter. So, maybe it was Miyazaki's request for shit and giigles or even part of PR

Gwyn (father) - Gwynever (daughter) - Gwyndolin (son)

Lothric and Lorian (brothers)

Oceiros (father) - Ocelotte (son)

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UltimateInferno@reddit

I have to point out that because Elden Ring is a Japanese game, Miquella would be pronounced "Mikerra" (compare it to Marika)

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VacaRexOMG777@reddit

Saying marika in Spanish sounds so close to uhm yeah....

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didntgetenoughsleep@reddit

Main bad guy called Hitler Follower called Himmler Writers really gave up on this one

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Dravarden@reddit

are they brothers? no? then it's a coincidence

Tolkien wrote both Saruman and Sauron, therefore, he could have chosen different names

you would likely make fun of a parent that named both of their kids "Daniel", because that's fucking stupid and confusing

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PooeyPatoeei@reddit

I wonder where Heimlich maneuver fits into all of this.

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tassatus@reddit

Hilda! Hilda! Wake up Hilda!

I have invented… a maneuver.

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BoosherCacow@reddit

Is there a funny part to that? I had to close out of it halfway through to do something entertaining.

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tassatus@reddit

What’d you do

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BoosherCacow@reddit

I sat back and thought about how I'm spending my life.

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tassatus@reddit

Well good play mate because that’s not entertaining to me, that’s terrifying but we’re all trying our best

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BoosherCacow@reddit

that’s not entertaining to me

Me neither, I was lying to both of us

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Jackanova3@reddit

The Heimlich maneuver wasn't invented until the 1970s.

If it was being developed back then it was probably more of a gesture than a maneuver.

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Moaoziz@reddit

Heimlich is the German word for secretly. Use that information however you like.

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Ghost3276@reddit

Naming the guy who leads the secret occult ritual loving pseudo-religious side faction of the main evil faction Slightlychangedmainbadname Secretly. Maybe the implication is that Himmler was secretly a clone of Hitler?

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PooeyPatoeei@reddit

Hitler and his follower Himmler were Heimlich lovers??

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WintersbaneGDX@reddit

You do that when your army chokes on a cherry tomato from the farmers market garden

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AegisT_@reddit

main opponent to Vladimir putin is someone name volodymyr

Who's paying the writers?

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PooeyPatoeei@reddit

No one, its all AI at this point.

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1ncorrect@reddit

That would make so much sense. Someone went hands off with the simulation. Honestly shit has felt too weird to be real the last few years. Almost a decade now.

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UltimateInferno@reddit

Fun fact, there was an Australian aboriginal language that also referred to canines as "dog" by sheer coincidence.

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ImprovisedLeaflet@reddit

Give them a break, they’re German. Writing isn’t their strong suit.

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NetStaIker@reddit

They’re practical types after all

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JeffreyClose@reddit

Guy is named Obama. Arch-nemesis is named Osama.

Terrible

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Colonel_Potoo@reddit

Dude creates a very popular rifle, named Kalachnikov.

Dude creates a very popular rifle, named Balashnikov.

Come on...

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Lucius_Sejanus@reddit

And put this guy in charge of his film propaganda department:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Hippler

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Roadman_Shaq@reddit

dogshit writing, they really expect me to believe this shit??

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krigeerrr@reddit

life imitates art

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Dale_Wardark@reddit

Anon has absolutely NEVER written a book before. Names are so FUCKING HARD, especially if you're in a fantasy setting where your names have to sound less or not at all like real names. On top of that, Saruman and Sauron are related beings, they're both Maiar spirits, iirc. Saruman, Gandalf, Radagast, and the two Blue Wizards were sent to Middle Earth with physical forms as sort of guides for mankind. Sauron is the lieutenant of the OG dark lord, Morgoth. The closest thing to Maiar in our world lore would be something like angels and demons. Other Maiar spirits are the Balrogs (yes plural, there were several), great beasts of shadow and flame, which were corrupted similarly to Sauron. Morgoth could not create, he could only corrupt and destroy.

Just like this fucking greentext has completely misconstrued and corrupted the sacred texts of LOTR

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McFlyyouBojo@reddit

Yeah, try picking a name that fits in your fantasy-ass setting that also doesn't sound like a name that will instantly cause people to give you a wedgie everywhere you go.

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InfusionOfYellow@reddit

And so Mansuron was born.

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darthsexium@reddit

gif

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Papageier@reddit

"A tree with a beard? Hmmmm...ah, I know..."

Also, copying half of your characters' names from Nordic mythology? 🤨

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