#tolkien names

[sillylotrpolls]

Bonus internet points will be awarded to anyone who actually tries this exercise before voting.

Assume you need to get the spelling at least somewhat close, and if a character has multiple names, only one counts. Also, if a character doesn't have a canonical name, I'm sorry, but "that guy's wife" doesn't count.

For reference, if you can name the 9 members of the Fellowship, the eponymous Hobbit and his 13 dwarf buddies, 3 prominent women, and the guy who runs the Rivendell B&B, that's 27 characters right there. And you probably also know the name of a dragon.

For further reference, Tolkien Gateway has 637 (!!) pages dedicated to Third Age characters. (Don't click that link until you've voted, of course)

Edit: Your humble pollmaker gave this a try, and got as far as 73 before deciding she was too tired to keep trying to remember dwarf and Silm names. If you also want to share (and don't mind people being incredulous at your having forgot ____), pastebin allows you to paste text and share it for free. :)

#lotr #lord of the rings #poll #polls #tolkien #unfortunately I could not award myself points for “ugh that guy who betrayed Gondolin I guess?” #nor can I ever be bothered to remember how to spell the names of you-know-who's seven sons #oh wait #just remembered two more names #it's gonna be like this all day for me isn't it #sudden pollmaker regret

[pimsri]

Sea-Wing

#my path of titans main!! #not my first main tho my main main is a bars #but she's close second #i love flying around and fishing #it's harder now with Hatz about #but i still enjoy playing her :) #her name is Earrame #it means sea wings in quenya #i love giving my animal tolkien names lol #thalassodromeus #pterosaur #dinosaur #not dinosaur but #yknow #pimsriart #pimsriart2023 #last art of 2023 probably #it's 18:40 here so probably #path of titans #pot

[chechula]

Boromir I drew to practice painting backgrounds in acrylics ♥ He is sitting in the pine forest, since ....when I first time read LOTR (9 years old) I was sure his name was Czech/Slavic, meaning "peaceful pine forest" (since "Bor" means pine forest here and "Mír" means peace ....also this "-mir" is really common name suffix here :D)

#tolkien #boromir #when I told this to my sister she told that I am idiot and it is not his name at all #x_x

[azaisya]

@just-another-linguist and @melestasflight both requested Fingon which was v exciting. Fingon is one of the characters that really stuck with me the first time I read the Silm, but I’ve never actually drawn him. In my mind this is like a Valinor-era Fingon!

#fingon #silmarillion #silm art #silmarillion fanart #tolkien fanart #candlesart #here down in the valley #I’d started reading the silm after I’d just finished reading this v extensive aragorn&legolas series #that mostly just involved one of them getting whumped and the other having to rescue him #it was a fantastic time. ‘mellon’ was possibly in the title #anyway it was pure h/c w a side of road trips and so when fingon went on his road trip to rescue maedhros #my brain immediately supplemented the like paragraph of description w the tens of thousands of words of a&l fic I’d just read #which. given that my first read of the silm was mostly just a blur of names and locations #made fingon and his rescue incredibly memorable

[raven-6-10]

People like to talk about how sons of Feanor all go by their mother-names in Beleriand, except Curufin, and what it could mean about their character and their relationship with their parents but let's be fucking real: their father-names sound goddamn ridiculous in Sindarin.

Can you imagine it? "Oh, those are the sons of the infamous Feanor: Nailfin, Gonfin, Turfin, Morfin, Curufin, Pînfin and Findui."

#tolkien #silmarillion #sons of feanor #house of feanor #names

[myceliumelium]

Big fan of most of his possible lineages, but the "He's just some dude" has to be up there for my favorite Gil-Galad origines. Anyway, here's rando sinda ex-thrall Gil.

#silmarillion #art #tolkien #gil galad son of plothole #gil galad #This guy seems dramatic enough to name himself Scion of Kings because his scars look like a crown

[steddielations]

Flight of Icarus lore dump part 2:

Part 1 | Character List

- Wayne has a green thumb. He reads Gardener’s Weekly magazine. It doesn’t say what he grows, but it says he buys vegetables from the store so I’m going to say that gruff old man Wayne has the prettiest petunias in the whole trailer park.

- Eddie sneaks into the Hawk with his best friend Ronnie to watch action movies and thinks Snake Plissken, Han Solo and Conan the Barbarian are cool.

- Eddie talks for hours about the intricacies of Elven politics in Tolkien.

- Eddie read comics as a kid and hid them all over the house "like a little squirrel" under the bed, behind the nightstand, under the rug. Wayne found his Uncanny X-Men in the freezer between stacks of tv dinners. Also, "Hellfire Club" comes from these X-Men comics.

- Floor time! There's a part where Eddie is literally just lying on his back on his bedroom floor counting down from a million. When Wayne comes home, Eddie army crawls on his belly to the doorway to see him.

- Eddie reads Gormenghast paperbacks, gothic fantasy novels. It mentions that Wayne saved them from the house fire along with Eddie’s guitar. It never says how/when Eddie originally got his guitar.

- Eddie says lots of cc’s original songs have D&D references. It's implied that he writes them. One is called “Fire Shroud” after a spell

- Eddie is called Freak King at school and Munson Junior or just Junior around town and he hates all of it

- Eddie talks about having anxiety a lot and it's implied he has had panic attacks in the past

- Eddie is the lead singer and guitarist of cc. He started the band with Ronnie specifically because it was required to participate in the school talent show.

- Neither Wayne or Al graduated high school. When Eddie (temporarily) drops out, Al celebrates.

- Eddie doesn't cook. He doesn't even own a spatula. The smell of cooking in their house actually shocks him and gives him a deep longing for family meals, which Al uses to manipulate him

- Eddie jokes about being into Saturday Night Fever and strikes the pose a couple times.

- Eddie knows how to hotwire and how to pick locks. Al taught him this at the age of ten. Eddie is "disgusted" with himself any time he does either of those things.

- Eddie "drives like a monster" when he's upset about something.

- Eddie smokes cigarettes occasionally. Weed is mentioned a lot in the book but it never says anything about Eddie smoking it or doing any drugs. He either doesn't smoke much or he hasn't tried anything yet in the book. Also, he’s just now meeting Rick. But It’s pretty clear after everything he went through why he would start

- There's lots of mentions of PBR and Bud Light. Though Eddie says he doesn't like to drink after his shifts at the Hideout (where he's a barback). He mostly drinks off-brand Big Buy soda in the book (he calls it "pop")

- Eddie's parents were married on March 12th, 1966. The date is inscribed on the bottle of their wedding wine. Eddie asks what kind it is and Al says they only had 'red or white' kind of money

- Al breaks out the wedding wine (to manipulate Eddie, you guessed it) it's red wine and Eddie really, really likes it

- Eddie went to War Zone with his dad for supplies for the truck heist (spike strips, coveralls, etc)

- Eddie's band played Exciter by Judas Priest at the talent show. The song was only approved because they emphasized the "priest"

- There was another (?) talent show in Winter of 1981 where Eddie's band played "Prowler" and they were kicked off stage halfway through because the song was considered Satanic, and the PTA visited all their parents for trying to convert everyone to Satanism.

- Eddie imagines hitting his dad twice. Once with a glass bottle and once with a metal wrench. (He should've- oops who said that)

- The only hug Eddie gets in the book is when his dad first comes back, Eddie knows it's the first step in his cycle of showing up, using Eddie and leaving, but Eddie still accepts the hug and feels guilty for enjoying it.

- It's implied Eddie gets close to tears a couple times in the book, but the only time they actually spring up is when his mom's favorite song (from Muddy Waters) comes on in the truck radio while Eddie is doing the heist with his dad and feeling awful about it. Eddie has several flashbacks of dancing with her to this song, it seems like his happiest memory that he always returns to.

- Whenever Eddie is doing what his dad wants (hotwiring, charming a person into their plans) he puts on what he calls his "best Al Munson smile" and he's terrified that it will eventually take over his whole face. There's a part at the end where Eddie is sitting in a jail cell and says "All I want to do is tear my face off. If a new one grows in it's place, maybe it'll make me a different person. Someone who isn't such a complete fuckup."

#eddie munson the nerd that you are #steddie writers eddie recites tolkien purposely to be annoying so write that down #these always get progressively sadder oh boy #eddie munson #flight of icarus #wayne munson #al munson #ronnie ecker #stranger things #i'm gonna do one more of all the places name dropped and then a deep dive into eddie's d word issues #mp

[anattmar]

silm oc

my girl is a vanya loremaster and historian who ended up going with noldor because she sensed that this is where the actual fun will happen

#the silmarillion #silm #tolkien oc #oc #original character #of course i don't have a name for her #vanyar #illustration #sketch #art

[markscherz]

Really diggin' the silmarillion-blogging in the tags lately! A precarious crown upon the most excellent frog vibes

Then you may also enjoy Uroplatus fangorn, a species of leaf-tailed gecko we described a few years ago.

Photo: Frank Glaw and Miguel Vences.

#gecko #Uroplatus #Fangorn #Treebeard #Uroplatus fangorn #such an appropriate name #I was so proud of it #i am a huge Tolkien nerd #and this was one way to pay tribute to that without overdoing it

[brigwife]

"Oh hey Professor Tolkien. What's that lady's name?"

"Was she the mother of an important male character?"

"No?"

"Well then it doesn't fucking matter what her name was."

#yes i'm posting about this again #lotr #tolkien #learn to name your fucking women please #rohan #house of eorl

[toskarin]

forewarning that this is mostly just an observational ramble

one thing I've gathered from looking around older western fantasy otaku sites is that, presumably in large part because of the order in which things entered mainstream consciousness, sauron is talked about pretty consistently as the final boss of the lord of the rings

technically, this is true of everywhere, but I want to emphasise that it is extremely common to see younger fantasy otaku a decade or two ago use ラスボス when explaining who he is, as a primary descriptor

[before going any further on this, it probably bears mentioning that the japanese translation of lord of the rings is a bit divisive. when it comes up, it's either in the context of how impressive the translation is (skews older) or in how unreadable it is (skews younger), because it's translated into antiquity prose. apparently exceptionally so, even for a fantasy novel, so it was very much extreme nerd shit]

a big part of this is, of course, just the idea of the final boss having more awareness than tolkien at the time the movies were coming out. I imagine almost the exact same thing would happen more or less anywhere that video games hit mainstream nerd awareness before tolkien did, but there's something else that I think might have something to do with it, because if you're looking at old enough threads, you notice that not only is sauron being explained as the final boss, but this is being mentioned in contrast to morgoth not being the final boss

which seems a bit random (morgoth doesn't exactly come up enough in lotr proper to cause this confusion), if you don't know that angband, where morgoth is the final boss and sauron is just the midboss, was pretty popular with western fantasy otaku. well, popular in the way that cult classics are, but you know how it goes

with that in mind, it makes sense that it was (at one point, before tolkien was more accessible through other channels) something people called each other fake fans over

so in a kind of interesting way, namedropping sauron in fantasy otaku spaces that skewed younger (for a time) was almost equivalent to namedropping morgoth in western fantasy nerd spaces. that all kind of stops being the case once you have the peter jackson movies immediately at hand, though

there's also the fact that, because it's a little harder to read lord of the rings in japanese, someone who's casually into the book is much more likely to also go ahead and read the silmarillion, which helped rings of power get incredibly popular with older audiences in japan when it came out. as a fun side effect of all this, there's a bit more morgoth x sauron shipping around

#also should be clarified that the specific way that tolkien is translated in japanese is like #seemingly made to create a generational divide in people who have strong opinions on whether you should use kanji in western location names #same argument as always: do you translate for western sound or period-appropriate language #and its answer is a resounding 'both'

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Idk man, what if Legolas was simply his sindarin name bc the light elves couldn’t pronounce his silvan name and Legolas just did not care enough to get them to pronounce his name correctly bc most light elves don’t even try.

Imagine:

Silvan elf: Lysrilahs!

Elladan: *looks left* *looks right* whomst?

Legolas: *nodding at the silvan* hi, what’s up?

*Legolas & silvan elf have a short discussion*

*elladan, elrohir, and arwen’s brain malfunctioning*

Arwen: what was that?

Legolas: oh, that’s my actual name. Yeah, most of the noldor and sindar i’ve met don’t even try to pronounce it right, so i’ve sindarized it to “legolas”.

Arwen:...

Elladan:...

Elrohir:...

Arwen: do you mean to tell me we’ve been friends for centuries and we didn’t even know your name!?!

#lord of the rings #lotr #silmarillion #the hobbit #lotr elves #legolas #silvans #incorrect tolkien quotes #incorrect lotr quotes #incorrect hobbit quotes #elladan #elrohir #arwen #legolas elladan elrohir and arwen are the chaos quartet and you cannot tell me otherwise #legolas is his sindar name bc the others can’t pronounce his elven name

[fabulous-feanorians]

High King Finwë: killed by morgoth

High King Feanor: mortally wounded by several balrogs

High King Maedhros: willingly burned alive

High King Fingolfin: stomped to death in a 1v1 with morgoth

High King Fingon: got his head cleaved open by balrogs

(Okay, you get the point).

High King Gil-Galad: in the event of my death, Elrond, I crown you H—

Elrond: —hotel manager haha awesome

#“I’ve already got a name in mind #“I’ll call it rivendell 😅 #elrond said nah I’m good lol #elrond #tolkien #silmarillion #lotr #silm elves #the silm fandom #the silmarillion #lord of the rings #incorrect lord of the rings quotes

[saurons-pr-department]

"Twink Sauron isn't canon"

Neither is cishet Sauron. Not enough is said about him to decide one way or the other. So there's zero need to act like fans who enjoy queering the character need to be more realistic.

#mairon #sauron #tolkien #you'd swear queer-coded villains were never *a thing* #i've been seeing this phrase more and more since.... we shall not speak it's name 😔

[trans-opossum]

Amphibiuary day 11: Recent!

#amphibiuary2024 #this is a random one lol #scientists recently discovered a frog and named it after JRR Tolkien! #I uh. have no knowledge about lotr but I wanted to draw frodo 👍

[0harpies]

* drops this out my pocket*

Oh fuck doghunt tolkien

#south park #tolkien black #tolkien #token black #sp tolkien #sp tolkein #tolkein #sp token #tolkien sp #how the fuck do you spell his name?? i think its tolkien but ill just add everything just in case #HarpiesArt #doghunt #south park au #south park dog hunt