Subject: Okay, so villains.
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Posted on: 2022-04-19 19:52:34 UTC

At first I thought I'd just do the villains for the twelve canonical princesses, but that list starts with "Evil Queen", sooooo no. Instead, let's talk board games!

I've never played it, but I love the design of Disney Villainous: the playing pieces are stylised representations of the villains of the piece. The starting game has six, so let's see how they fare!

  • Ursula the Sea-Witch: Surprisingly good Quenya! Ursala means "Raging [one]" (ursa + -la), and we can go ahead and translate her title too. Istar Eämbar is pure Quenya for "Sea-dwelling Wizard" ('Istar' is genderless, so I think we can cross-apply it.)
  • Maleficent - It looks like we're going to have to go Quenya again, for Mále-fíne-sana > Málefínsana. Unlike Ursula, this one means "Healthy dextrous thing"; I suppose it might be appropriate for the more recent movies?
  • Captain Hook - Okay, this one we actually have to translate, because both words are directly used in Quenya. He is Hesto Ampa, and is actually named after a letter (ampa is the Tengwa for -mp- or -v-.
  • Jafar - A tricky one, because Tolkien didn't really like the letter J. Yáva comes pretty near on the pronunciation, and just means "Fruit" in Quenya.
  • Prince John - Same problem again, so I could go with "Yón" ('region'); but for entertainment value I will instead choose Yonyo, the Quenya word for 'big boy'. Bless 'im! His title, oddly enough, already showed up in the previous thread: Cundo or Kondo is sometimes translated 'Prince'.
  • Queen of Hearts - Once again I think we should just translate this one by meaning. Tári Homwa is a posessive phrase literally meaning "Queen of Hearts" - and yes, that's Quenya again. Odd, since I think a lot of the princesses wound up with Sindarin names.

There are also five expansion packs, which between them add (deep breath) the Evil Queen, Hades, Dr. Facilier, Syndrome, Lotso, Madam Mim, Lady Tremaine, the Horned King, Gaston, Ratigan, Yzma, Scar, Cruella de Vil, Mother Gothel, and, uh... Pete from Steamboat Willie. But I'll leave those for someone else to do. :)

hS

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