the coolest name

[afro-elf]

what character had the coolest name?


I like Gildor Inglorion

[Ñólendil]

Curufinwë Fëanáro sounds pretty cool, but there's a lot like that. I love the way Quenya sounds.

[Sister Golden Hair]

I like the name Felagund, which is Dwarvish, but I think it is cause he is my favorite character. I wouldn't name a kid that or anything. One of the prettiest names in the books is Laurelin. That is my nieces name. Even people that have never read the books love her name. Some do not realize that it is all one name and mistake her name for being Laura Lynn.

[Elvellon]

I agree with Inoldonil, we can find many good names in Tolkien’s work; Voronwe is a good example and Glorfindel is another. :)

[easterlinge]

Fingolfin sounds cool, as does Elwe Singollo and Elu Thingol.

[Sister Golden Hair]

Originally posted by easterlinge
Fingolfin sounds cool, as does Elwe Singollo and Elu Thingol. Uh huh;)

[galadriel]

Elanor is a beautiful name, I think. Other cool ones are: Tinuviel, Alatariel, Elendil, Yavanna, Celebrimbor.

[afro-elf]

after thinking about it, there are many names that sound pretty cool

for humans i'd have to say imrahil, elendil, and eldarion


and i'd add say the three G's for me

Gildor Inglorion, Glorfindel, and Gil-Galad


BUT there TOO many great names especially if you go through the appendix and lineages

[Selwythe]

Eru Iluvatar

Finduilas - beautiful name too

Annuminas

I liked the old name Angamandi more than Angband, ditto for Nienori/Nienor

Faramir (like the sound of it) Faramir, Faramir, Faramir (see what I mean?)

Tar-Minyatos or something, in fact, all the Tars.

Romandacil

Helm Hammerhand, Eorl the Young

Cirith Ungol

Telperion & Laurelin

Arda

Minas Morgul (reeks of rogue)

Ecthelion

Arwen Undomiel

Beren Ermabwed (must have Ermabwed behind)

But the best of all............................

THE LORD OF THE RINGS

[Ñólendil]

Tar-Minyatur 'First-ruler' is probably the 'Tar' name your thinking of Selwythe.

Is 'Ermabwed' an earlier form of 'Erchamion'?

[easterlinge]

Elros Tar-Minyatur !! It does have a grand sound to it, really royal !!

Tilwelint (Tolkien's old name for Thingol)

Eol is simple and elegant.

And for place-names:
-Tur Haretha, the Ladybarrow. It has a Xena-ish feeling to it, yes?



And my favourite word is gorgun, what the Wild Men of Druadan call the Orcs, and also the Entish word burarum.

[Ñólendil]

You know, it does have a 'Xenaish' feel to it, though I can't explain it. I think perhaps it is it's relation to a place and people that had amazons in their midst.

[Legolas]

Well, I love Entish names. Real names, not the ones like Treebeard or something. So, my choice is Fimbretile (I'm not sure if the spelling is correct, though).

[Wayfarer]

A good entis name for you

"A-lalla-ka-lalla-hamlalla-bal-gam-a-ahag-ala-anbay-abah-ah-ai-a-aba-haba-amb-ahab-nana-gaja-baka-na-aaa-kaja-laa-aja-kaj-aa-laj-laj-a-ahab"

'Dwarf master of spam ignorant of punctuation drunk four stars from posts without content illiterate spamming dwarf'

]:)

[Ñólendil]

Ahab, is that you?

Legolas, you mean Sindarin names. Fangorn, Bregalad, Fimbrethil, these are all Sindarin.

[Kirinki54]

I think Mithrandir has a noble and beautiful sound to it. None of the other Istari can match it. Saruman sounds like his soul in later days; rather disgusting. Radagast, well... Not really nice. Pallando and Alatar makes me think of blue clowns.

[easterlinge]

The First Age Edainic names, like Haldad are sooo cool...

[Ñólendil]

Kirinki, the Elvish names for Saruman were Curumo and CurunÃ*r, what about those? The names of Alatar and Pallando were later changed to (or at any rate replaced by) Morinehtar and Romenstámo (or Rome(n)star).

Tolkien also intended to changed 'Haldad' -- to 'Halbar'. Do you like that as much easterlinge?

[easterlinge]

'Halbar'..... ugh.......

Why am I reminded of a fish?

:(

Let's stick to Haldad and Marach (and Beor, though I don't really like the name), nice archaic-saga-like pre-Elven contact names for the Edainic Fathers. Beren is pretty good, and so is Tuor.


I think sometimes Tolkien went a little too far tweaking his Middle-Earth. And he never got around to rewriting the Fall of Gondolin thing. :rolleyes: :)



.......I nearly forgot Ghan-buri-Ghan !!! :) :) Nice primitive-wearing-grass-skirts feel to that name.

"Wild Men kill gorgun and wear grass skirt every day. Wild Men beat Horse-Lords at Math, hooo hooo heee eh heeee!! Wild Men beat drum and invent Morse Code, better than Stone House People with silly fire on hills. Watch Wild Men dance hula around stupid gorgun."

[Kirinki54]

Originally posted by Inoldonil
Kirinki, the Elvish names for Saruman were Curumo and CurunÃ*r, what about those? The names of Alatar and Pallando were later changed to (or at any rate replaced by) Morinehtar and Romenstámo (or Rome(n)star).


Not very appealing any of them, I must confess. As for geographical names I always liked Nan Curunir, though.

[Vanimdil]

My favorite names are Earendil, Imrahil, Celebrimbor, Mithrandir, Finduilas and Earwen. As for place names, I like Alqualonde and Imladris. I love the way Rauros makes one think of rushing water. Also, Caradhras has a wonderfully malevolent sound that just fits the mountain. And Cirith Ungol too: it makes me shiver. Tolkien had an incredible genius for name-making.

[Wayfarer]

"Ahab, is that you?"

No, Randy, it's not. However, when I was typing out my example of an *ahem* entish name, I noticed that one of the syllables was ahab. Thus I translated accordingly.

Since you're so fond of sindarin translations, it's me, Ersaeliphant.

[Ñólendil]

Actually I'm better (but horrible) at Quenya. Hmmm. You must be either Morthoron or Anon101, judging by the use of 'Randy'. I would guess Morthoron as he (or you if my guess is right) has I would say more Sindarin at his command than Anon101. You could also be ?????, come to think of it.

'Er' probably means 'one', I have no idea about the rest of the name. But welcome to Entmoot, whoever you are!

[Wayfarer]

"Actually I'm better (but horrible) at Quenya"

Really? How very insipid of you. ;)

In any case, you could translate my name:

Er (http://www.jrrvf.com/~hisweloke/cgi-bin/sindarin.cgi?search=er) = One
sael (http://www.jrrvf.com/~hisweloke/cgi-bin/sindarin.cgi?search=sael&phon=ipa) =Wise
iphant (http://www.jrrvf.com/~hisweloke/cgi-bin/sindarin.cgi?search=iphant&phon=ipa) =Old

So 'Old Wise One' or 'One having wisdom undiminished by age'

Actually, a more direct translation would be Tithan Ersaeliphant, 'Little old wise one' which is a translation of the Irish 'Seanin', aka 'Shannon'.

So you guessed right after all. ;)

[Ñólendil]

After I made that post, I was looking around at the others, and I decided it couldn't be Morthoron, and Anon 101 became increasingly unlikely. Had to be you :)

Glad you made it over here. Amandil arrived recently as well. I suspect there's more of you here than I am aware of.

I should like to make an Elvish name for you in Quenya. 'Old Wise One' shouldn't be too hard.

[Ñólendil]

Just looked through Ardalambion. Linyenwa meant 'old' and nolmo is 'wise person', but put together it's five syllables, and would not have the same precise meaning. For 'old' among those who spoke Quenya in the Elder Days did not connote weakness. Linyenwanolmo, it's just too long.

A shortened nick-name might be Linyenwo.

[Ñólendil]

Easterlinge, I made a mistake earlier. I told you that Tolkien purposed to changed Haldad's name to Halbar. Not true. It was Haldad's son: Haldar that was to be changed. Halbar was Taliskan (the language of many of the Edain in their early days) for 'chieftain' (hal 'head, chief' + bar 'man'). You're probably interested to know that 'Haldad' belongs to Taliska as well, it means 'watchdog'.

[Legolas]

Originally posted by Inoldonil
Legolas, you mean Sindarin names. Fangorn, Bregalad, Fimbrethil, these are all Sindarin.

Thank you for correcting me.

[Andúril]

Favourite names :

Glorfindel
Ancalagon the Black
Ecthelion
Olorin
Aragorn son of Arathorn (his son has a cool name which I cannot recall)
Iluvatar
Elladan
Elendil (although when I heard Aragorn's pronunciation of it in the movie (ELLEN deeeel), I grimaced...

And also :
Celebagel
Galadribble
Dildo and Fritto Baggins (from Bored of the Rings)
Tom Abominable
Old Man's Pillow
Sorryman

[Earenya]

Not a character, but I like Lothlorien... it just has a nice feel off of one's tongue.

[Nariel Starfire]

You know, I actually like the really old names like Eru, Illuvatar, Melkor, Ulwe, and Manwe...

[Starr Polish]

I love the names in Middle Earth. I have a passion for cool names in stories (My favorite so far is Nibasi, and that name belongs to ME, I made it up for one of my many stories)

Mithrandir
Imladris
Istari
Legolas - so many ways to pronounce it too!
Arwen
Melian
Ilmarë
Noldolantë (actually the name of a song)
Aranwë
Atani ...actually, this means the second child, or men...it's sounds really nice though...Atani...
Ellemirë
Eönwë

There are more, but I'll post them later.

[Wayfarer]

Speaking of names... Falmon? That's sort of like a trout, right?

[The Ringbearer]

I like:

Frodo
Aragorn
Arwen Undomiel
Feanor
Varda
Elendil (Anduril, I think he said it that way because he didn't pay attention to pronunciation in midair :rolleyes: :D )
Galadriel
Any elvish name

Namarie. RB

[Keith K]

I've always been partial to Ghan-buri-Ghan.

[Nibs]

Gwaihir the Windlord

[Blackboar]

I like :Arwen
Pippin
Drogo
Galadriel
Mithrandir
and Aragorn (I prefer "Strider" though)
;)

[Elf.Freak]

I think Mithrandir, Gil-Galad (can't remember where thats from) and Feanor (don't ask why, i like the name!)

typing with one hand is hard!;)

[Radagast The Brown]

I like the names:
Glorfindel
Gandalf
Fingolfin
Imladris
Gil-Galad
Glorfindel
Galadriel
Barad Dur
Orthanc
Belfalas
Legolas

[Earniel]

I like Ecthelion more and more (my horrible elvish sense tells me it means 'Fountainson' Is it right?)

I also like Sirion, RÃ*an (;)), Laurelin, Nan-tasarion, Fimbrethil, Ilmarë, Kementári, Nessa, and many, many others.

Names like poems. :)

[Sminty_Smeagol]

If/when I have children I would love to name them Middle-Earthen names. not LOTR.... LOTR = too overused. But, poor kids, Imagine them in a class with a teacher trying to pronounce their name....

Alatariel

"Uh.... Al...Alter.....yell? Alteryell?"

[Eothain]

Glorfindel is quite cool.

[Falagar]

Fëanor/Fëanaro

[Blackboar]

I just like Pippin and Frodo!

[Lenya]

Whay too much lovely names to think of my favourite. Most of the Quenya names are cool - not just the sound of it, but also the meaning. I like Feanórë pretty much. Oh yeah, the spelling also counts for making a name cool :) Quenya looks pretty.

[cee2lee2]

There are many lovely names in the books, but Glorfindel is my favorite. Was quite distressed when he was cut from the movie. Also like Eowyn a lot.

[Lenya]

Don't mention that. He shouldn't have been cut out - makes me *frantically grabs hair*... so angry *supress a tantrum*.

[CrazySquirrel]

Why do you like this Glorfindel-dude? He has done NOTHING of importance in his life. Why had he bothered to return from Mandos at all?

[Lenya]

Because he was cool! And he actually bothered to venture out into the dangerous woods to find Frodo, not Arwen.

"Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold, his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strengh."

- Fellowship of the Ring, book II, ch. I

[Rían]

Yeah, I really like Glorfindel, esp. in the Fall of Gondolin story, but I'm not wild about his name. I just don't like the "glor" sound, for some reason. I like most of the names Tolkien came up with, tho, and I like how they hang together "ethnically" (how you can see a name and kind of tell the background of the person because of their language styles). I thought it was interesting how the elves coming from Valinor made Sindarin forms of their names because it was linguistically displeasing to them to not change -
from The Shibboleth of Fëanor
The changes from the Quenya names of the Ñoldor to Sindarin forms when they settled in Beleriand in Middle-Earth were on the other hand artificial and deliberate. They were made by the Ñoldor themselves. This was done because of the sensitiveness of the Eldar to languages and their styles. They felt it absurd and distasteful to call living persons who spoke Sindarin in daily life by names in quite a different linguistic mode.

The list of translations of names following this quote is really interesting to me.

[Lenya]

Cool. Where did you get The Shibboleth of Fëanor?

[Rían]

The Shib is in the History of Middle Earth series, Vol. 12 (The Peoples of Middle Earth).

The HoME (History of Middle Earth) books are 12 books that JRRT's son, Christopher, put together. They consist of previously unpublished works by JRRT in various levels of finished-ness. They're a great read after you've read Hobbit, LOTR and the Sil - they give lots of fascinating background. There's a bunch that are just drafts of LOTR, which I don't have. The ones I really like are the ones that deal mostly with Elvish history:

10 - Morgoth's Ring
12 - The Peoples of Middle Earth
11 - The War of the Jewels
3 - The Lays of Beleriand
1 and 2 - The Book of Lost Tales, 1 and 2


I think there's a thread on the HoME series somewhere... go to your local bookstore and check them out! :)

[Lenya]

Oh, thanx. I've only read Vol. 3

[Rían]

If you're into Elvish stuff, you'll like the volumes I listed :) A lot of it is repeat stuff, but there's some great new stuff, too! Definitely worth getting, IMHO

[Lenya]

Well the only problem is that I have this thing for buying books. I don't like reading a book if its not mine. And right now, I really don't have the money to buy another series. I've thought of getting vol. I & II also, but not just yet.

[Rían]

I mean go to a bookstore and check them out to see if they're worth buying, IYO - I don't mean sit down and read the whole thing at a bookstore :)

[Lenya]

That won't work. I've only once (about a year ago) actually seen 4 of them in a book store. Thei're not in high demand - I'll have to order them.

[Rían]

yeah, there's usually only 1 copy of each in my Borders, if that ...

[Rosie Gamgee]

Cool names? I like a lot of the names, especially the ones that have significant meaning: y'know, Wind in His Hair (he invented the first blow-dryer, you know), Stands with a Fist, Standing Room Only... Ooo, wrong tale. Okay, Middle-Earth, right. Yeah, so I like the ones that mean something (although I can't think of any right now- not been into Tolkien's stuff that much lately). Here's some I like off the top of my head, though:

Elbereth
Findulias
Niniel
.... I. Am. Drawing. A. Blank. Where is my brain? Call me if you find it. It's grey, looks like everyone else's except it's about 0.01 the normal size. K?

[Andúril]

To support my earlier assertion, I recently (maybe 4-5 months ago) named my car Ancalagon the Black. :)

[Tree Dweller]

horsey name - Brego
hobbity name - Mirabella




...all I can think of right now... :o

[Manveru]

Teleporno (Celeborn's original name) is hands down the best name Tolkien ever created

[Rosie Gamgee]

To support my earlier assertion, I recently (maybe 4-5 months ago) named my car Ancalagon the Black. :)

You.. named.. your car? :p Okaaaaay... I suppose it's a good name, for a car, though. ;)

[Andúril]

You.. named.. your car? :p Okaaaaay... I suppose it's a good name, for a car, though. ;)I think so. I think it suits the car (http://img156.exs.cx/img156/4162/DTM02.jpg) quite nicely. :)

[Lenya]

To support my earlier assertion, I recently (maybe 4-5 months ago) named my car Ancalagon the Black. :)

That's a bit wierd... though I have to admit that I've named most of my plant ( I love anything that's green :D ) and I got 2 little fishes Saturday - Starburst (a goldfish) & Chocolate Thunder (a black one). Don't worry, I wanted the names to be lame :cool:

[Finrod Felagund]

I love the name Brego (king of Rohan), its just a really cool one...lol

Luthien is a good one, Manwe, Mithrandir, Olorin

[Lenya]

Brego? Don't remember that name, when was he king?

[Farimir Captain of Gondor]

Some of my favs:

Amon Sûl
Galadriel
Khazad-dûm
Faramir
Ithilien
Uruk-hai
Dwimorberg

[jammi567]

i personally love the name Fingolfin because it just seams to flow off the tounge as easily as water.

[cee2lee2]

i personally love the name Fingolfin because it just seams to flow off the tounge as easily as water.


I feel the same way about Glorfindel. :)

[gwilwileth]

My favorite name would have to be Tobold Hornblower, but surprisingly he didnt blow horns, he blew pipe-weed. What a drag. :(

[Sam]

i've always loved the name Feanor, but i would have to say that my fav. is Shadowfax.

[Green Rose]

Oohh I loved the name Brego, and Galadriel (now come on, who DIDN'T like that one?)

[me9996]

I like Aragorns name...