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Fictional Names So Obvious They Might as Well Wink at the Camera

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Tolkien gave us "Lothlórien." He gave us "Rivendell." He gave us "Eärendil the Mariner," "Celeborn," and a language system so complex it basically earned him a linguistic PhD from the imaginary university in my brain. The man was a master at inventing names that sounded ancient, elegant, and filled with mythic weight. And then... he called the volcano "Mount Doom."Mount. Doom.Like he looked at a map of Middle-earth and just went, "Eh. You get th…
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Home broke the news in on Monday, June 30, 2025.
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