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Old 12-28-2008, 07:07 PM   #1
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Old 12-29-2008, 12:05 AM   #2
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Andsigil is Sindarin for "Long Knife". Anyone who's viewed my profile will understand.
indeed. I was checking out your knives a couple of weeks ago, and they all look terrific!
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Old 12-29-2008, 09:47 AM   #3
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Old 12-29-2008, 10:58 AM   #4
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Well I'm guessing what my name means. El means star. Ulmo means 'he who pours' so my means 'star pourer'? 'Star water'? Or maybe it means 'red annoying character on American children's television'
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Old 12-30-2008, 08:51 PM   #5
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Well I'm guessing what my name means. El means star. Ulmo means 'he who pours' so my means 'star pourer'? 'Star water'? Or maybe it means 'red annoying character on American children's television'
Heh. Since I have a four year old child, I'd never considered your name could refer to anything but the latter.
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Heh. Since I have a four year old child, I'd never considered your name could refer to anything but the latter.
And as a hardened Silmarillion veteran, I'm shocked it doesn't mean the younger brother of Thingol to you.

Hmm... I think I smell a post to the "Addicted to LotR" thread.
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Old 12-31-2008, 07:13 AM   #7
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Heh. Since I have a four year old child, I'd never considered your name could refer to anything but the latter.
You should know, Elmo should consider it a great honour he was named after a brother of Elwe Singollo
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Old 01-01-2009, 02:02 PM   #8
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Well I'm guessing what my name means. El means star. Ulmo means 'he who pours' so my means 'star pourer'? 'Star water'?
Tolkien noted that (in Quenya) -mo '... often appeared in names or titles, sometimes with an agental significance': Ulmo was interpreted as 'the Pourer' < *UL 'pour out'

So here Quenya -mo does have agental significance 'pour out' > Pourer (one who does 'the meaning of the stem'), though not in all cases, noting Tolkien's 'sometimes'. If El- means 'star' in Elmo my guess would be something like 'Star-person'.

On the other hand, in The Shibboleth of Feanor (1968) Tolkien looks at Elwe, Olwe and the stems el-, ol-, and seems to cast doubt on an intended rendering of Elwe meaning 'Star-person': 'There is nothing known to connect Elwe more closely with the stars than all the other Eldar; and the name seems invented as a pair with Olwe, for which no 'meaning' was suggested'
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Old 01-03-2009, 07:05 AM   #9
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Interesting cheers. If it does mean star-person it is quite fitting who is studying Physics with Astronomy in University.
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Also, it (-mo) might be masculine (just to add), so 'Star-(male) person' maybe
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