Man behind the Mythology

[Child of the 7th Age]

Master Fordim...

You wouldn't be referring to some of the names Tolkien suggested for someone who wanted to name a "cow" after characters in LotR.

This is his response from one of the Letters...

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Personally I am rather against giving strictly human and noble names to animals; and in any case Elrond and Glorfindel seem unsuitable characters, for their names which meant ‘The vault of stars’ and ‘Golden hair’ seem inapt. I recently played with the notion of using the word for bull I gave you, which introduced in the form –mund gives a fairly familiar sound (as in Edmund, Sigismund, etc.), and adding a few Elvish prefixes, producing names like Aramund (Kingly bull), Tarmund (Noble bull), Rasmund (Horned bull), Turcomund (Chief of bulls), etc. I wonder what you think of these?"