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Yep. Sam's actual name in Lord of the Rings is Banazir Galbasi. Sounds Pakistani...
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Matthew Lutz
@MattLutzPhi
Replying to @Noahpinion
Tolkien was explicit in the appendices that he was doing the same thing. Hobbits don't speak English! Sam's real name wasn't even "Samwise," it's "Banazir Galbasi." Samwise is just how Tolkien translated that name from Westron into modern English.