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Gandalfthegreatestwizard- EpicMithrandir wrote:

Recneps wrote: He meant that he hates it with a passion. Also, we don't speak Westron. But, yeah, I support all-Sindarin names. Who doesn't speak Westron? I'm fairly sure that Westron/ Common Speech = English. Did Tolkien state otherwise? Westron is an entirely different language than English. The Lord of the Rings was written in English so people could understand it. The actual orriginal language of the story though was in Westron, and therefore technically all the characters and place names have different Westron names than they do in English. I am pretty sure Tolkein talks about this in the appendices, especially in reference to the Bradywine river. For example, Meriadoc Brandybuck's actual name is supposed to have been Kalimac Brandagamba, in Westron (Westron is the English word for this language, by the way). The One Wiki to Rule them All has an article on Westron here:

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Westron