Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-222.153.46.128-20170615094717/@comment-31421070-20170625040931

Celeborn of Lothlorien wrote: This forest is made up in the mod... it's not in the books. We don't even know when it was named, so it would make sense to comply to the proper rules rather than randomly presume that half of the name is perfect sindarin and the other half, still sindarin, but with a mistake. If you're going to go with 'it's been named before modern sindarin' then we'd have to look back to pre-great journey Elvish rather than Quenyan, as quenyan evolved in Aman not around that area. And even if you were to use Quenyan, which would be awfully illogical (not to mention all the cartographers from the west who named these places were humans using Sindarin) it wouldn't be Caran but something in actual Quenyan, I'm afraid I don't speak that though so I can't say what Red forest is in Quenyan, I'd guess Taurëcarna or something like that but I honestly have no idea. Quenya, not Quenyan.

Quenya developed in Aman, yes, but that does not mean that it was nonexistent before the elves reached Aman, rather that they improved it to the point of being more significantly unique.