Unless you think the overblown is entertaining in itself, only for speakers of Dutch and Frisian. The philological puns are all in those languages. A few are marginally translatable: Neptunus is said to derive from Neef Teunis = Nephew Tony, Minerva from Mine Erven = Meine Erben and the chief god is Wralda, which is etymologically related to Uralt. The first time I read that Tom Bombadil was called Orald in Mannish languages, I thought Tolkien knew the Oera Linda Boek.
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Date: 2010-10-07 10:07 am (UTC)