Tolkien was a scholar in many European languages, both Ancient and Modern. If he drew much of his mythology from Celtic legends, then I'm sure that he took names and other things from other languages.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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