How Did Your Downs Name Come About?

[Diamond18]

You do realize that whenever I quote you I am now going to make it,

Originally Posted by Paul the poet guy

Speaking of distinctly non-ME names...... Obviously, littlemanpoet ain't Middle Earth.

As to mine, it's simple enough. I had a strange little crush on Pippin at the time, and Diamond is the name of the gal he married. Diamond was taken, as was Diamond Took, and as it happened to be the eve of my 18th birthday, I stuck my age on there.

The 18 annoys me greatly and always will, not only because I am no longer 18, but there seems something ungangly about the number in my name. But it's mine and I'm stuck with it. Anyone who knows me well just calls me Diamond or Sarah anyway, so it hardly matters.