Tolkien Names

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Sooo... I was reading a thread and came up with an idea...

I was thinking, if you could name you child or pet or a living thing of you own a name from LotR or the Sil or a ME name ten what would they be... What names sound good to you?

For me
Girls:

Elanor Rose or Rose Elanor Gardener
Melian
Rosie Lobela

Boys:

Samwise Peregrin Gardener...and hopefully my last name will be Took
Estel
Samwise Patrick Gamgee...

[Diamond18]

I have two cats and their names are actually Merry and Pippin. But just about any Tolkien name would do for a pet.

I wouldn't want to saddle a person with something like Galadriel -- way too obvious and likely to be mispronounced. Most of the names are like that. I like the simpler names like Elanor and Rosie and Sam. Diamond is a little on the odd side but still workable. Eomer, Eowyn, Boromir, and Faramir are iffy: I like them, but would I actually name a child that? Probably not....

[Thinlómien]

My and mys sister's tortoise's name is Myytti Vaappu Konnanheimo-Reppuli, which could be translated as Myth Waddle Toadsville-Baggins... .... And I just realised two of our fish are named Merri (Merry) and Pippin. (They are ugly, small and fat catfish who swim upside down...)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

My and mys sister's tortoise's name is Myytti Vappu Konnanheimo-Reppuli, which could be translated as Myth Waddle Toadsville-Baggins...

Good that it's not a dog. I can't imagine anyone calling a name like that. Tortoises have the advantage that, normally, they are not called as often as the dogs.

My cousins used to have two hamsters, named Arwen and Galadriel. When I was litt... well, younger, I wanted a dog whom I would name Huan or something like that. Later, I wanted a smaller, possibly wolf-spitz dog whom I would name Isengard (in English, so exactly how you read it). But nowadays, I don't think having a dog would be a good idea, whatever he'd be called. Dog just takes too much of your time, and to be honest, I am not particularly fond of dogs. Maybe I could say that I wanted the dogs more because of the names I could give then than the dogs themselves

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Yes, if I named my child Rose or Elanor nobody would know where it came from, unless they found out, or were really smart (or knew me really well)!

If I even liked dogs, Haun would be a good name, he was faithful.

[Lindale]

My dad named our dogs Arwen and Aragorn, and their kids Beren and Luthien... but I think it's an effect of too many years not reading Tolkien!

I used the name "Yaviendale" sometimes for a pseudonym for some random bits in our campus stuff. Roughly, it is Song of the Gift or Gift from the Song.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Good that it's not a dog. I can't imagine anyone calling a name like that. Tortoises have the advantage that, normally, they are not called as often as the dogs.

Well, maybe not as often but often enough. Usually we just call him Myytti (or with some idiotic pet name...).

If I had a cat I'd love to name him Tevildo. And if I had a female spider, she would most definitely be Shelob.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

And if I had a female spider, she would most definitely be Shelob.

And if it were a male spider, he could be named Lazy Lob or Crazy Cob (or how the names were). If I had a male spider, I would definitely name him like that. This song was my favourite in the Hobbit from the moment when I first read it and it was at first the main reason why I wanted to have the book. Concerning the name of the spider, I don't have that affinity with the English ones, but in Czech the names were Bubřináč and (blbý) Bublina. I preferred Blbý Bublina and maybe I'd name even some other animal than spider like that (a dog, for example). In translation it means "stupid bubble". I consider this name incredibly cute and for example using it for a small, a little bit stupid puppy dog would've been great (and maybe it could be used even for animals such as tortoise or a very fat old cat. But in the latter case, it would be a pejorative use).