Results from the Poll re: the name ' Laegolas' in the Fall of Gondolin - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Galin · 07-03-2007, 06:04 AM

Just to explain, I didn't vote on any form of the name thinking that this was voted on long ago in any case.

As for naming customs I have written a 'summation' based on passages from HME X and HME XII, which includes a bit on the repetition of names among Elves. Most here probably know the details, but I don't think the following example has been raised in the thread (the text about the name Glorfindel has been raised of course) so, just for possible interest...

It concerns the valour of an Elf with a Quenya name: Tolkien states that Aracáno never changed his name to Sindarin form (especially when slain so early in the history of the Exiles) but the name Argon (the Sindarin form): '... was often given as a name by Noldor and Sindar in memory of his valour.' The Shibboleth of Feanor, The Peoples of Middle-earth

07-03-2007, 06:04 AM	#34
Galin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,036	Just to explain, I didn't vote on any form of the name thinking that this was voted on long ago in any case. As for naming customs I have written a 'summation' based on passages from HME X and HME XII, which includes a bit on the repetition of names among Elves. Most here probably know the details, but I don't think the following example has been raised in the thread (the text about the name Glorfindel has been raised of course) so, just for possible interest... It concerns the valour of an Elf with a Quenya name: Tolkien states that Aracáno never changed his name to Sindarin form (especially when slain so early in the history of the Exiles) but the name Argon (the Sindarin form): '... was often given as a name by Noldor and Sindar in memory of his valour.' The Shibboleth of Feanor, The Peoples of Middle-earth