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Originally Posted by Galin
In any case, I think Tolkien's choice of hobbit easily predated how he ended up explaining it within the translation conceit, yes. I don't think any of the Dwarf-names were necessarily even 'translations' in the early going, for example; rather Tolkien was probably just using a convenient external source for his tale.
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I'd forgotten that T. himself brought that up. I remember someone else writing of it after his death.