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Originally Posted by Boromir88
Boromir, of course is my favorite character...like no one ever saw that one. And the 88 surprisingly is not my age (yet), it has a special significance to me that I will never forget.
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Year of your birth, mayhap?
The name Folwren was my second choice. My original choice was Istri. But, when I filled in the e-mail address part of the page, I put in hotmail instead of yahoo. *sigh* Needless to say, I never got the confirmation e-mail and I could not sign in as Istri. (Istri is a character in C.S. Lewis' book Till We Have Faces - she is pretty much a Goddess at the end of the book and was a perfect girl when she lived. . .) I am glad I didn't get Istri because I don't think I'd like it quite as well as I do Folwren.
I decided to do Folwren after Istri failed because I wanted to be original. No, it has nothing to do with Tolkien or Middle Earth, and no one would know where it came from, and many people would probably mispronounce it, but I cared little. My older brother uses a character from his stories for all his online stuff, so I decided to do the same.
Folwren is one of my characters, in a short book that I've been working on for the past two years. She's the best character I've ever created. She's nothing like me, but she's still neat. Don't ask me what it means because I can't tell you. I could only tell you what the original character was like, but only if you asked and really wanted to know.
My only vexation is the fact that almost as soon as my name was shortened to Foley, some politician here in the U.S. named Foley goes off and does something really dumb and is published everywhere in the news. I don't know what he did, but I do know that the name is everywhere and that it's
my nick-name here.
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Originally Posted by Farael
I know, not as fancy but it sounds pleasant to my ear. I always wonder, though, how the English speaking folk pronounce it.
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I don't know Spanish, but I pronounce it 'far-a-el' with the stress on the far. Am I right?