Listen, I love Tolkien, The Hobbit gave me a lifelong love affair with books, but Hobbiton?!

@RickiTarr
"I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn’t think anything of what he had done to the city’s name. Later I heard men who could
manage their r’s give it the same pronunciation. I still didn’t see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves’ word for dictionary. A few years later I went to Personville and learned better."

Dashiell Hammett, "Red Harvest" (opening paragraph)

@RickiTarr

It gets worse when you translate other locations from Elvish/Dwarvish etc:

Moria = Mines
Anduin = Big River
Lothlorien = Treeeeeees
Rohan = Horse girls mostly
Mordor = Orc Party