The door of durin.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Galin

Thank you Nerwen! Your concision trumps my 'chart like' post!

I think the chart's necessary; the concept of the Dwarves having both real and false (i.e. "translated") pseudonyms is a bit brain-twisting.

Originally Posted by Galin

The translation conceit can get quite complicated (for instance 'Meriadoc' was really Kalimac... but seemingly Tom Bombadil is really what the Hobbits called this being 'back then')... but that's what makes it fun in my opinion!

Ah, well, as a semi-exception to what I said I my last post, Tolkien mentions that some of the hobbits' names are "real" (though usually with different endings), and just happen to resemble certain modern names ("Tom" being short for "Tomba", not "Thomas").