In “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” we learn that Lord Voldemort is an anagram of his real name: Tom Vorlost Riddle. How does this work in other languages?
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Tom Marvolo Riddle is Lord Voldemort (Source: Warner Bros. / TMDb.org)
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Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) meets Tom Vorlost Riddle in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and realizes that he is actually Lord Voldemort. Tom (Christian Coulson) then shows that his pseudonym is an anagram, as “Tom Vorlost Riddle” becomes “is Lord Voldemort”.
In English, Tom’s second name is not “Vorlost”, but “Marvolo”: “Tom Marvolo Riddle” becomes “I am Lord Voldemort”. In other languages, the anagram is often designed so that the name becomes “I am” rather than “is” as in German.
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In order to fit the Voldemort anagrams in different languages, Tom Riddle’s middle names often had to be adapted and changed. In some languages, not even the “Tom” or “Riddle” is retained. Here is a list of the anagrams in different languages.
- Spanish: “Tom Sorvolo Ryddle” becomes “Soy Lord Voldemort”
- French: “Tom Elvis Jedusor” becomes “Je suis Voldemort”
- Italian: “Tom Orvoloson Riddle” becomes “Son io Lord Voldemort”
- English: “Tom Asmodom Riddle” means “My name is Voldemort”
- Turkish: “Tom Marvoldo Riddle” becomes “Adim Lord Voldemort”
- Portuguese: “Tom Servolo Riddle” becomes “Ice Lord Voldemort”
- Swedish: “Tom Gus Mervolo Dolder” becomes “Ego sum Lord Voldemort” (which is actually Latin)
- Danish: “Romeo G. Detlev, Jr.” becomes “Jeg er Voldemort”.
- Icelandic: “Trevor Délgome” becomes “Ég er Voldemort”
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(Those: tmdb.org)
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