Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-204.60.84.2-20180503180240/@comment-35394711-20180505130952

PumpkinLOTR wrote: Just because Tolkien went through Anglo-Saxon names and such when he made the Rohirrim doesn’t mean we just turn the Rohirrim into Anglo-Saxons

You are misunderstanding or misrepresenting my position. I'm not stating that the Rohirrim should be turned into the Anglo-Saxons. That would entail a lot of changes to their culture which I nowhere suggested or intimated.

What I did suggest was that since the name "Marshal" is not canon, then it is reasonable to suggest a new name. If one is suggesting a new name, then it is reasonable to go back to the same well Tolkien drew from, in order to keep some of the same cultural inspirations Tolkien originally had.

Just to be perfectly clear, I have nowhere stated that Rohirric culture should be turned into Anglo-Saxon culture with horses. I have proposed only that it would be within reason to use the same influencesd as Tolkien when choosing one specific title for a position which should be renamed.