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The LOTR story is a long fable of adventure, the movies showed us the magnificence of Middle Earth and all its beings. Peter Jackson's eye for detail gave us something JRR Tolkien would've imagined thru his own eyes.

The endless songs and poems are hard to plow through

His third villain "Superman" must have ended up on the cutting room floor

I just assume it's because they wouldn't let him get away with naming them Sauron and Sauroff.

He was cooking with Teleporno though.

When Sam and Frodo sat down to write it all up, they used the names they had gotten used to.

Oh man I got so confused with this in like 6th grade

You can play a Magic deck with all of these:

One of my favorite facts is that “Sauron” can reasonably be translated from Quenya as “Stinker.”

I always confused the two as a kid and thought Saruman was the bigger baddie because his name was more ornate.

But then you have Shakespeare with "Ariel," and "Lear." Maybe that's in your 20%. Cheers.

And don't get me started on Tengwar--it's damn near impossible to read because all the letters look the same. One big irony of conlangs is that the more organized we try to make one, the less useful in practice it becomes (because humans are messy and lazy and inconsistent).

If in the first act you have hung a symbolic syllable on the wall, then in the following one it should reveal its significance. Otherwise don't put it there. — Chekov, probably

at least the main character of his high fantasy epic was named paul

Tolkien is not saury at all.

I like the two names a lot but I agree that together it makes them very confusing. The 70s animated Lord of the Rings even changed Saruman’s name to “Aruman” to prevent audience confusion

I believe that in the Ralphi Bakshi film they (half-)renamed Saruman to "Aruman", but they weren't exactly consistent in their usage...

I leaning towards Sauron being the name that gets to stay. For the movies, they should've just rolled with "Christopher Lee" and have everybody straight face it.