[crossposting between the brin-l and the tolklang lists] Julia Thompson wrote: > >Shall I say that "Frodo" isn't necessarily a constructive suggestion for >naming a kid in the US? :) (I already have an if Sammy comes home >saying there's a kid named Frodo in his class who's getting teased.) > Frodo is in fact a Frisian name, Frode. Tolkien "translated" the original Hobbit/Westron name Maura, that might come from _zar(a)_ (old).
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