How Did Your Downs Name Come About?

[Farael]

My name does not really have much explanation behind it. It sounds good.

Well, ok... there is a bit more than that. Before coming to the downs, even before I moved to Canada, I used to post in another forum that was (as you may guess) in Spanish. It was dedicated to fantasy as a whole and so I chose a name that did not really have much to do with Tolkien.

I made up the name "Farael" from three different parts. First we have "Far" which is meant to mean (anticlimax coming up) Far as in far away. Originally Farael was one of my characters and he was very aloof and distant. The "-el" termination is somewhat common for male names in Spanish that were derived from Hebrew... Daniel, Ariel, Miguel (Michael)... the 'a' in the middle is just to conect the two things as Farel didn't sound quite right.

I know, not as fancy but it sounds pleasant to my ear. I always wonder, though, how the English speaking folk pronounce it.