About Those Hobbit Names

[Peregrin Took]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

–Welcome to the Downs, Peregrin Took. I can't believe nobody has taken your screenname already!

I know! Thankfully for me

Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim

Old user-names become available again after the old accounts are deleted, inactive for a certain period.

I don't think that's the case - for there are plenty of usernames on the user list who have been inactive probably since they signed up. There is also somebody who had the name PeregrinTook, with no space, and they have been inactive for years. So, I believe I got lucky!

You'd be surprised how many key names aren't taken here. I don't believe anybody has the name of Meriadoc Brandybuck.

Originally Posted by Eomer

Nerwen explains the issue well. The names, though, are still an interesting topic. I recall discovering that Frodo and Sam weren't really Frodo and Sam, and feeling quite strange about it. I wasn't too happy, if you know what I mean. I'd invested all that time in the names only to find they were mere 'versions'. Now I'm older and understand that nearly every name we have is a version of some kind.

This isn't the first time I've heard about it, but it's the first time I thought to find out a little more on the issue. I know what you mean - I would like to think the names we read, such as Pippin and Frodo, were actually their names. Through translation, I suppose that's correct.

Nerwen- I know that Westron is translated into English, I just wasn't completely sure if that was the case for the Hobbits, too.

Thank you both!