Who’s got the best Title? (Do I hear some Nominees?)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Rikae

EDIT: And posting very little, because I like the idea of having a personal title before I reach 1000 posts!

You know what, post some five more posts and then wait (and hope you don't need to answer anything in the meantime ) and post the 1000th as the first one with a new title... which I am really curious to see (just what is that you might have picked?)

...and no, you don't have to reply to this! Wait!

[Thinlómien]

After consulting the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, I decided that I like Rikae's new title.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

After consulting the simple translator on Seznam.cz I decided I like it too

[Rikae]

Thanks, Lommy & Legate! I'll admit - 'mellifluous' has not, heretofore, been part of my active vocabulary. I found it looking through a dictionary for adjectives which alliterate with "Maia". I liked the allusion to either Melian or Saruman, depending on how you want to take it - moral ambiguity suits me. *wicked grin*

Good choices, my fellow newly-knighted Downers!
I'm curious about the thought process behind Legate's and Volo's (since TM already gave us his.) Macalaure's I knew beforehand, and I say he gets extra points for using a special character!

Legate, when I saw your earlier post I wished I had time to take your advice - that would have been glorious. Oh well.. *sigh*
995th post!

[Volo]

I decided I liked Rikae's title even before I went to tracetech.net and got the slightest clue of what it might actually mean.

I'm curious about the thought process behind Legate's and Volo's

From my part I can only say that at first sight it looks extremely corny, at second sight you understand that it might actually be somehow BD-related, at the third sight you think that it sounds pretty good and at the fourth you don't even notice it.

I leave the meaning completely to your imagination and will try not to comment it like Lommy's imagination.

[Rikae]

Originally Posted by Volo

From my part I can only say that at first sight it looks extremely corny, at second sight you understand that it might actually be somehow BD-related, at the third sight you think that it sounds pretty good and at the fourth you don't even notice it.

I leave the meaning completely to your imagination and will try not to comment it like Lommy's imagination.

I think I have some idea...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Rikae

I'm curious about the thought process behind Legate's and Volo's (since TM already gave us his.)

Well, I went through several ideas for a PT in my head, but as it happens to me more often, the right one popped up in my mind with no actual connotations. Though, in this case, it was something that already had strong place in my heart and that I always liked. For those who don't know, the title comes from one passage in Tuor's story, when Ulmo speaks to him:

Originally Posted by Unfinished Tales

And Ulmo spoke to Tuor of Valinor and its darkening, and the Exile of the Noldor, and the Doom of Mandos, and the hiding of the Blessed Realm. "But behold!" said he, "in the armour of Fate (as the Children of Earth name it) there is ever a rift, and in the walls of Doom a breach, until the full-making, which ye call the End. So it shall be while I endure, a secret voice that gainsayeth, and a light where darkness was decreed. Therefore, though in the days of this darkness I seem to oppose the will of my brethren, the Lords of the West, that is my part among them, to which I was appointed ere the making of the World."

I always liked Ulmo, and I always liked this part, and there are other things that I'll leave to your imagination and interpretation.

Originally Posted by Rikae

Legate, when I saw your earlier post I wished I had time to take your advice - that would have been glorious. Oh well.. *sigh*
995th post!

Well, look at it from the better side - your most glorious moment still awaits you and now you don't need to worry about having or not having the title when it comes

Originally Posted by Volo

I leave the meaning completely to your imagination and will try not to comment it like Lommy's imagination.

Well, to me it gave the impression of a very poetic title - and also pressing upon me the idea of you as soft and dreamy person.