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Originally Posted by jallanite
Apparently I was not clear in my intention. I see Gandalf and Mithrandir and other names given to Gandalf in various languages as unrelated to the Quenya name Olórin in meaning. While Saruman appears to be a translation of that wizard’s Quenya and Sindarin into Old English, presumably representing a form originally in true Rohirric.
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Okay. I'm not sure why you think you were unclear above though.
In the part of my post that you quoted (for your response here), I simply made a guess about the meaning of Aiwendil being in play or not, and next I made a new point about being able to certainly detect a 'translation' in all cases, giving Incanus as an example (Gandalf and Saruman being cases of translations for comparison to Incanus).
:shrug: