names

So, I'm working on a recreation of my apartment into a tolkien-style map, but I'm having trouble naming the different rooms. If anybody has suggestions for tolkieny names for common rooms like kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room, dining room, study, etc I would LOVE to hear them. I want them...

Hi all! Just registered to ask for help translating my family's names into Tengwar. My parents are wanting to get a tattoo of our names in Elvish (and I may be inclined to join them after my tattoo of Tolkien's symbol - an exciting year!), so I want to make 1000% sure that they have the correct...

I watched the Covent Garden free showing of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty on Friday (available on Youtube for next 14 days from last Friday) and was struck by the name of the evil fairy: Carabosse, It struck me that's a lot like Caderousse - one of the baddies in The Count of Monte Cristo -...

This is mostly idle curiosity, but I haven't found (and possibly this is due to my impatience with research) a definitive answer in how one should go about constructing names in either of these incomplete languages. I find both to be lovely languages, though I admit I am partial to Quenya for...

curious about the absence of names starting with J - prove me wrong please I'm trying to find one - as well as X... I can't seem to find them.

There are certain gender indications in Tolkien's Elvish languages what comes to names. For example, "-el", "-iel" or "-wen" (maid) suffixes are often considered as feminine: Nerdanel, Galadriel or Arwen. "-ion" suffix is most definitely masculine, meaning "son of": Ingwion is "son of Ingwë"...

How can I properly convert genderless Sindarin names into male and female ones? I have one specific name in mind: Calaear. I would love to use it for a character, but I can't seem to settle on the correct way to feminize that name. Every attempt I've made thus far has that character sounding...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysippe_%28Amazon%29#Lists http://www.paleothea.com/amazons.html Examples Hippo=Horse Hippolyte='of the stampeding horses' or 'she who releases the horses' Hippothoe=Nimble Horse Lysippe= 'she who lets loose the horses' Melanippe=Black horse, moon horse, or horse of...

Here's a map of some mountains on Saturn's moon, Titan, produced by NASA:

so i have started reading the silmarillion for the second time, and a question came to mind. how many names, which includes character and place names from all Middle Earth books, did J.R.R Tolkien invent/create? any approximate answers you might have are very much welcome!

Okay, so we have the following names for Aragorn: Estel (as a child/young man) Thengel (in Rohan) Ecthelion (in Gondor) Thorongil (in Gondor, as a ranger) Elessar (as the King) Elfstone (by Galadrial, the elves) ...and a few other nicknames Point here is that Aragorn was known by alot of...

Good that people who grabbed Tolkien names early, then didn't use the forum, are being deleted. I'll stick with Eledhwen, though. Whoop! Already changed my avatar to the all new, bigger size.:*up

Good day to you all. I am Milan Tair and I am new to Sindarin (actually, I've tried learning it some 4 years ago, but without luck). --------------------- Now I'm kind of giving it a try again, and the first thing that I'm trying to do is make a map of a place called Divčibare (on...

I was just curious (I'm overly curious 98% of the time - humor me!), how everybody picked their usernames. Did you use the name of a favorite Middle Earth character? Make something original? Use a name you've used on other forums? Other? For myself, I combined my two favorite LotR...

Have you ever run into a character in a fictional story with your name, or the name of someone you know? Was it distracting to read? Have you ever read a story with a character name for which you had so many preconceptions (whether negative or positive) that it affected your take on the character?

I was wondering if any one knows how Oin and Gloin from The Hobbit should be pronounced. My daughter says it's Oh-in and Gloh-in. I say its Oyn and Gloyn.

Hello I would be grateful for some suggestions (links, books, periodicals, etc) as to where I may find information on Tolkien's use of proper names in The Lord of the Rings. For example, where do the names Gandalf or Gollum originate. More to the point, do these names have a bearing on the...

Hello, everyone! I was wondering if somebody could help me with translating a few names. I have to say that I'm doing this from memory because I'm in another city and all my notes are at home. I'm from Bosnia and Herzegovina and I want to translate those names and the names of Croatia and...

Hello all. Last year I was in a Public Speaking class, and I had to prepare a five minute speech, not memorized, yada, yada. So I did it on 'The Origin of Tolkien's LotR Names'. It's in speech format, but it's interesting. Enjoy! I am going to be talking to you about how JRR Tolkien came up...

Do any of you guys know anyone whose name is in LotR? There's a kid at my school named Durin, but that's all I've ever encountered.