So, for my University courses I have to attend some lectures on Old English. And browsing our glossary I found something pretty interesting.
The Old English word for "Murder" or "Mortal sin" is, you might have guessed it, "morðor". Guess where Tolkien got the name for the Black one's land, huh?
Bloody Mordor!
Mordekaiser might as well be called Mordorkaiser
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I was always curious: is Mordekaiser a nickname and we just don’t know his real name in the same vain as Khada Jhin being a nickname? Or he is really named Mordekaiser? I don’t why i think Mordekaiser fits better as a nickname or title.
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I think this extrapolation is a bit of a stretch for the LOTR reference. Sure, you can link it to the old English word that Tolkein clearly derived his naming from, but Mordekaiser is clearly deriving from German, and not Old English, and the prefix "Morde" is vague enough where I don't specifically see how it's a specific connection to LOTR, no more than any word can be connected to something else once you start breaking apart prefixes and word structure. It's a neat little discovery of kinship from the word derivatives, but I don't believe it's a LOTR reference, no more than seeing the word "Tree" as a reference to Treebeard the Ent or someone named "Tom" being a reference to Tom Bombadill.
I thought it was Death King in German or something, Morde Kaiser?
Mordekaiser is just german for "murder emperor" or something. It's not a reference.
I mean like.
Mordekaiser is literally a compound German word meaning "Murder King," so...
