Where'd ya get that nick??

[The Barrow-Wight]

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Well, now we know the root of coprophage7. How about the rest of you tell us where your nick comes from (even if it is obvious).

RKittle is simply short for Ron Kittle...that's me <img src=ohwell.gif ALT=":/">

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[burrahobbit]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

My name came about because trolls are stupid. <blockquote>Quote:<hr> &quot;Lumme, if I knows! What are yer?&quot;

&quot;Bilbo Baggins, a bur-- a hobbit,&quot; said poor Bilbo, shaking and wondering how to make owl noises before they throttled him.

&quot;A burrahobbit?&quot; said they a bit startled. Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

&quot;What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?&quot; said William.<hr></blockquote>

What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?</p>Edited by <A HREF=http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00000062>burrahobbit</A> at: 8/26/00 9:54:45 am

[Taimar]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

I used to play MERP in the early eighties. My character`s name was Taimar. I thought that it sounded vaguely Tolkienish, although it does not have any meaning that I know of in any of his languages.

Look into the http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/library/classiccourt/77/Mirror of Desire.</a> </p>

[Suldaledhel]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

My name is simply three adjectives in Sindarin to describe me. Sul dal edhel and thats my name!

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[burrahobbit]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

I am lazy. What does that mean?

What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?</p>

[Suldaledhel]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

It means Im a fast elf. Sul= wind dal= foot edhel= elf ....... Hmmm maybe I should join track this year...

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[galpsi]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

I was going to be Galbasi to evince my fondness for all things Gamgee. I thought it less presumptious to reference it tangentally. Then I realized that Galpsi has one less keystroke than Galbasi and that clinched it.

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[Mithadan]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

My on-line handle is a rendering in elvish of a real life nickname.

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[bmilder]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

I'm about as original as Ron. bmilder = Ben Milder, my name <img src=tongue.gif ALT=":b">

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[lindil]

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me name

In the early 80's I was part of a little 'Tolkien' group in the burb's outside of D.C.
We all took M.E. names mine was Lindil- 'lover of song' or so I thought -since looking into HoME I have some doubts . regardless , when I started posting here about the 'canon' I brushed it off after 20 or so years of neglect. A few days later I recieved in the mail an old weatherstained dark green Silmarillion from n old bandmate , I open the cover and low and behold 'lindil ' in thin and spidery letters.My original Hardback Silmarillion had comeback w/ out me knowing it was missing!

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[StormLord of Air]

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Re: me name

Yes well my name is simply a title, suitingly enough, for myself.

"We didnt expect that the Narrow Pass through the Red Mountains would be choked with snow this early in the season. Personally, I think a Storm Giant Mage sent a blizzard in the pass to slow us down." -Arius </p>

[quam]

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Re: me name

My name is taken from the latin relative quis,quae, quid and is nothing tolkienish.I just thought about a nickname while I had to learn a Latin text ,and it popped into my head

Quis,Quae,Quid
Quem,Quam,Quid
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[Wizard of the Secret Fire]

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Re: me name

My nickname is from a book written by the author JRR Tolkien <img src=wink.gif ALT=";)">


KHAL, that I use at my website etc., are the initials of my real name.

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Walk into the mystical Forest, find everything you need about Tolkien,
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[Zoe]

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Re: me name

Mine *really* original. Zoe = my first name. Wow. Exciting. <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)">

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[Gwaihir the Windlord]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

After considerable reasearch and efforts on my behalf, I discovered that 'Gwaihir' was the name of a lord of ME's eagles. His title is 'Windlord'. And since I have always wished I was an eagle (not truly; if you get my point) I chose that.

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[JesTheJade]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

I used to have the name Graham The Grey (Graham being my first name), but that just ripped of Gandalf too much, so I used my middle name (Jessup) to get Jes The Jade. <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)">

Jes

I usually watch over <a href=http://www.barrowdowns.com>The Barrow Downs</a> and <a href=http://pub28.ezboard.com/bamonhen>Amon Hen</a>.

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[Mister Underhill]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

quam, for us Latin-challenged types, what is the translation of your name? And your sig?

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[quam]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

my name means 'which',accusativus,feminine,singular.
and the sig is simply the first 6 forms of the latin relative.
______________male___female_____neutral
nominativus____quis____quae_______quid
accusativus____quem___ quam_____quid
so it has no meaning at all,but it just sounds good.

My tolkien favorites are <a href="http://www.tolkientrail.com/"target="web">the Tolkientrail</A>(michael martinez loved it!), http://www.barrowdowns.com/The Barrow-downs</A> and its http://www.barrowdowns.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/forum</a> ,http://pub24.ezboard.com/bmountgundabad/Mount Gundabad</A>, http://pub11.ezboard.com/bbagend16025/bag end</a> and <a href=http://pub20.ezboard.com/bdunedainscamp/">dunedains camp</a>,where I'm an RPG moderator
"Quis,Quae,Quid
Quem,Quam,Quid"
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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

If you saw my hair, you wouldn't have to ask. <img src=wink.gif ALT=";)">

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[Gwaihir the Windlord]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

So what does your hair look like?

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

Long fiery red locks.

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[The Barrow-Wight]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

Like the whips of a Balrog!

The Barrow-Wight (RKittle)
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[Lady Eowyn]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

My Dad called me Eowyn when I was a kid,
because I loved &quot;sword-fighting&quot; with my brother aso...
when I turned 18 he said &quot;now you are Lady Eowyn&quot;
that's where my nick comes from...
And Eowyn is one of my favourite characters in the books, so...

And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom</p>

[Sharkû]

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Re: Where'd ya get that nick??

Some reasons why I took this alias I have:
- it's orcish, and I like orcs
- it means &quot;Old Man&quot;, and age is something I respect greatly
- &quot;Old Man&quot; is somehow ironic for my person
- &quot;Old Man&quot; has an air of wisdom, and still decrepitude, infirmity, so to say
- it sounds nicely grim
- it refers to Saruman, one of the most interesting characters, and also a rebel
- it is a clear Tolkien reference, but not as obvious as others



<h6> Like yapping dogs
Blind lead the blind
Those who chain the future
Are those time leaves behind
Is glory now gone?
A friendship worth of fiends
Is a rose without thorns. </h6></p>

[The Saucepan Man]

I think that it is time to revive this thread as there are many many Nicks out there that I would like to know the meaning behind.

So, post away ... smilies/smile.gif

[elsye]

My nickname comes from one of my relatives, Elsye Mitchell. She died along with a group of children because of the Fugo project(Giant paper balloons with bombs strapped to them sent over the pacific). Plus I really like it a lot!! smilies/smile.gif

[Beren87]

Ah, well, mine is quite easy. It's my nick on every PHP or PHPUBB board.

Beren <----my favorite Tolkien character
87 <---as sad as it is, the year of my birth.

[hobbitlass]

Oh so young. smilies/wink.gif I better not wink at you, I'll be hauled off to jail!

I find myself to be most hobbit-like, in looks and personality. I saw a drawing of Rose Cotton and it was titled 'Rosielass'. I thought that was cute. And I didn't want an actual characters' name, to kind of be myself.

[ February 07, 2003: Message edited by: hobbitlass ]

[Maikadilwen]

In case Sharku should come across this thread again...

- "Old Man" is somehow ironic for my person

Why? Are you a woman? smilies/biggrin.gif

Anyway, how did I get my nick?
Well, actually it simply popped out of the good, old name-generator. But since Maika means sharp some people came to the conclusion, that it fits perfectly for my rather sharp tongue, since I usually say what's on my mind. smilies/smile.gif


And Mithadan, like I said on another thread, I simply refuse to believe the translation of that nick fits very well. You're too young for that, my friend! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Vardamar]

The Great Barrow Wright, or whoever made the name generator gave it to me.
Vardamar- the Confused Rohirrim

everythings great except the confused part.
but at least I'm not a dancing orc like my sister smilies/biggrin.gif

[Merri]

I thought Merri was a more feminine form of Merry, which seems to be more of a name than Pippin, and besides, it looks cooler smilies/smile.gif

But, of course, that was before I knew Peregrin meant journey. *sigh*

[Mithadan]

Maika, I am neither old (comparitively, though some might disagree) nor grey (except my eyes). Mithadan is an elvish version of a real life nickname. There is, by the way, an alternative translation for "mith".

[LePetitChoux]

I like cabbage.

[Orual]

Several people have already guessed correctly that "Orual" comes from C.S. Lewis' "Till We Have Faces," which I had just finished when I registered. I like the way it sounds, I liked the character, and I liked the fact that it started with an "O", because not many peoples' nicks start with an "O".

~*~Orual, who starts with an O~*~

[Balin999]

I can't believe I haven't posted here so far. Well Balin is just one of my favourite characters, I can't really say why. Maybe because he was a close friend of Bilbo, maybe because I like the Dwarves and caves and all that, too. And the 999 is an upside down 666, which comes from a computer game I played where I wanted to be named Sauron666, which didn't work, so I became Sauron999.
There you go.

[Raefindel]

Rae...red
fin...hair
del...elf

[Kalimac]

The Saucepan Man - hmmm...where *does* your nickname come from? smilies/smile.gif

I think I've explained mine once or twice before, but for those who haven't seen. My name (not legally, but the one everyone uses) is Mary, which phonetically jibes rather well with Merry Brandybuck, who also happens to be one of my favourite characters (co-favourite with Faramir). Merry or Mary seemed a little obvious, so I chose to go with the "real" Westron version of Meriadoc, which is Kalimac. So it's sort of a lame, inverted pun. But I'm happy with it.

[gollum*elf*pup]

I like Gollum. Elfpup is my name. I like *'s.

[Ithaeliel]

My name was from a character in a fanfiction that I ultimately abandoned. She was about my age and a mortal, so I just picked her to use as a screenname.

Ith(il)- Moon
ael-far
iel- daughter(?)

[Rimbaud]

Irreverant. Iconoclastic. Poet. What I was reading at the time. Good sentence structure. Have learnt much.

[Lush]

Where'd ya get that nick??

I got my nic from the same place I get cigarettes, chocolate, and alcohol, i.e., from a handsome man (which shows you the exact number of things that most handsome men are good for).

[Raefindel]

Well, Hey! That's the best place to get one!

[Maikadilwen]

Now, I don't really know about that, sweet Rae, knowing the fact that most of my "man-made" nicks would be deleted immediately by the admins if I posted them here.... smilies/biggrin.gif

Ok, so I'm not always the nicest person to be around... But I know you guys wouldn't want me any other way! smilies/evil.gif

[Faye Took]

I like the name Faye and Pippin had been my favorite hobbit at the time.

[Raefindel]

I don't think a man has EVER given me a nickname.

[Rimbaud]

Oh hush, pumpkin-dumpling-kins.

[Diamond18]

My rather lame nickname is taken from the appendix. I wanted something to do with Pippin that would be feminine (yet practical...) and which wouldn't be all over the board in various versions (like Arwen, there are hundreds of Arwen something-or-others registered).

The 18 is my age, which, ironically, I slapped on because just "Diamond" was already taken. Yes, I'm an idiot, but once I decided on it I had to have it. I wish I had made it more personal and clever and catchy, though. Boooo hoooo hoooo. smilies/rolleyes.gif

Hmmmm, I hope you like your new nickname, Rae. smilies/wink.gif I've amassed a few nicks from the opposite sex, but they're far too boring to share, and one is from my dad, so that doesn't count.

[Lush]

I don't think a man has EVER given me a nickname.

The only thing that means is that you don't have any seriously noticeable vices. Nobody gives nicknames for one's decent qualities, oh no. If they did, I wouldn't be "Lush," I would be "Extremely Good Kisser"...right. smilies/biggrin.gif

P.S. Rimbaud, you're a cutie.

[Diamond18]

Oh, yes Lush, say that right after I said "I've amassed a few". smilies/tongue.gif

[Carrûn]

I just stuck my name into the generator on the main page.

[Lush]

Oh, yes Lush, say that right after I said "I've amassed a few".

Oops. smilies/biggrin.gif

[DaughterofVana]

Vanabaliel was what the good old name generator gave me (do I sense a pattern here?) and then I got the urge to find out what it meant. When looking up the prefix Vana, I found it was a Valar similar to Persephone, and I liked the description of her so much I decided to become her follower. smilies/smile.gif

-'Vana

[The Squatter of Amon Rûdh]

I wanted to be at once silly, cryptic and ambiguous. Some may think that it's a fairly obvious choice, but those people don't know which character I had in mind.

[Raefindel]

The only thing that means is that you don't have any seriously noticeable vices. Nobody gives nicknames for one's decent qualities, oh no. If they did, I wouldn't be "Lush," I would be "Extremely Good Kisser"...right.



Maybe I should change my name to "AnnoyingGirl"

[Eärendil]

Well,
I got my name from The Silmarillion. And the character..(er)..Eärendil. (Obvious, isn´t it?)
He happens to be my favourite Tolkien-character. And reminds me of myself in a way.

[ February 11, 2003: Message edited by: Eärendil ]

[lord of dor-lomin]

Hurin and Turin are two of my three favorite characters, so I figured this name would cover them both.

And, Lush, you're dead on saying that you usually only get nick-names for bad rather than good qualities. I don't think I have ANY nicknames with good conotations! (and I can only think of one person, that *&^%@#, who only has good nicknames from the opposite sex)

[the phantom]

And who might that be?? smilies/biggrin.gif

(I wasn't going to say anything, but you left the door open, lord. And those nicknames are earned, you gotta give me that.)

Here's an explanation of my BDs nick that I copied from a similar thread I posted on some time ago...

In elementary school I used to do all sorts of things to entertain my friends. I would steal chalk from the chalk board and books from the inside of my teacher's desk, and I'd always do it while the teacher was in the room watching us. I was slick. One time I went up to talk to the teacher at her desk and stole a book, a pencil holder, and her glasses off the desk while she was looking right at me and talking to me. I would always place these items on the teacher's desk the following day when she wasn't in the room, and I'd always have a sticky note attached that read "from the Phantom". Eventually a classmate blew the whistle on me and I got in trouble.

Later on, when I was in high school, the kids in my music theory and music composition courses started calling me 'phantom' because I was always singing or humming Phantom of the Opera tunes. (I love Phantom of the Opera) This nickname caught on with my friends because I was still known for doing all sorts of sneaky pranks and never getting caught.

I really liked the sound of "The Phantom", it sounds so mysterious, so I let everybody call me that and have used that name for e-mail and stuff ever since.

[Gilthalion]

Long, long ago (before the Internet became the World Wide Web, or is that the other way around?) I wanted an Elvish translation of my name "Robert" which means "bright fame."

I didn't find anything that precisely corresponded (perhaps with today's resources it would be an easier task). I settled on Gilthalion: gil-star + thalion-stalwart.

I thought it sounded cool and that I would not find a duplication. +20 years and no dopplegangers, duplicates, clones, secret evil twins, or coincidences yet!

[lord of dor-lomin]

How's it happen that the usually super-conceited phantom didn't gleefully post his other nicknames?? smilies/biggrin.gif

[the phantom]

Don't tempt me!!

And it seems to me that you've always been the one to brag about things (eg any time you win a game of Balderdash or Taboo, and that one time you beat me in basketball).

[Sleeping Beauty]

*yawns* My nickname is pretty easy. It's from the fairy tale, of course. But it was given to me by a friend because everytime they came to my room, I was asleep! smilies/biggrin.gif Speaking of sleep...it's time for my nap. Good night...

[elven maiden Earwen]

Eärwen is my favorite elf name so i figured that would make a good enough nick.

[XPhial]

Yes, I like this nick. I am an incorrigible X Phile, the self appointed name for a fan of the show. Phial refers to the Phial of Galadriel, since I happen to really love that literary device.

[Nimrodel]

I chose Nimrodel because Legolas sang of her and I like the idea of an Elf singing my name.

[Gorwingel]

I got mine from the name generator here at the Barrow Downs. It is the female Elf version of my first name, though I realized I spelled it wrong, It should end -giel, NOT, -gel.
Oh well, it is still a cool nickname though smilies/cool.gif

[Salix]

My nick comes from a rather unusual source. I was looking through a Latin dictionary that I got for Christmas a couple of years ago, and for some reason (Mostly cause my name sounds kinda dumb in Latin) I looked up willow, (Which is a cool name and I had a friend named Willow once) and found a nickname that was decent. (As supposed to 'caelum')

[Balin999]

I don't think I have ANY nicknames with good conotations!

Before I finished school, I was called
"Horny Tom" (Thomas being my first name) by my classmates.
That was rather unfair....

[onewhitetree]

I got mine by flipping through a random book on my computer desk many years ago while looking for something that wasn't taken, so I could get an email address. Oh, how such trivial decisions are fateful. I have yet to find another person with this nick anywhere on the internet.

By the way, for the (faultless, mind you) ignorant, here is what it comes from:


Tall ships and tall kings
Three times three.
What brought they from the foundered land
Over the flowing sea?
Seven stars and seven stones
And one white tree.

[ February 24, 2003: Message edited by: onewhitetree ]

[Gayahithwen]

Ok, I'm really not original on this, but.. When I first found this site, I looked at the Name Generator, thought "hey, that's cool!" and typed my name into it, getting "Gayahithwen" from it.. then, it just sort of stuck, and when I decided to sign up for the forum, I couldn't come up with a better name, so.. smilies/rolleyes.gif Yeah, I used it.

Later on, I found out that it meant "awe-inspiring misty maiden".. and I'm pretty happy with that.. smilies/biggrin.gif

The Great Barrow Wright, or whoever made the name generator gave it to me.
Vardamar- the Confused Rohirrim
everythings great except the confused part.
but at least I'm not a dancing orc like my sister
Hhmm.. I'm no expert, but.. I think you've confused the "Who were you in Middle-Earth" with the name-meaning.. A quick search gave me this, though:
Varda - the Valier of the Stars.. Supposedly, her name means 'sublime' (in the sense of 'high' or 'lofty')
mar - "earth".. this could also be már, meaning "home, house"..
So, to me, your name seems to mean something more like "Of the house of Varda" or something like that.. smilies/rolleyes.gif As I already mentioned, I'm no expert..

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

I have absolutely no idea of where I got my nick, as I was half-asleep at the time I made it up, and desperate for ideas. I actually just wanted to bring this thread to the top, so that more people would post on it smilies/wink.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

~Menelien

[tifo_gcs]

Mine carries significance only to those of my friends who are as fanatical about soccer as I am. Lush might, with her love for Real now something about TIFO's, but UEFA has done much to eliminate them from the international football scene.
Anyway, the short definition of my nick is that TIFO is what I do for a hobby, GCS is who I am.
I wanted to register as Jaws 'cause that's another nick I have, and one of my friends has taken to calling me Jorge de (insert something spanish-sounding here) every time I walk into the room. He usually thinks of something new daily... most of my other Dansih friends call me Georg, using the danish pronounciation, and at work they call me Junior.... seems like the fine name of George is going out of fashion these days... I wonder why... smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Silmarien]

Silmarien after the ancester of Elendil, Isildur and Aragorn. Eldest daughter of a King of Numenor, before the law was changed that would have made her Queen. But she married the first Lord of Andunie(a bay on the west side of Numenor)and from her line came the Elf friends, the faithful. I also really like it because of its meaning - Lady of the light of the two trees or Lady of the light of the sun and the moon.

I was really suprised when I signed up to find that it had not been already used, but very glad.
-Silmarien

[Arvedui]

The last king of Arthedain. I was somewhat suprised the name wasn't already taken when I signed up last month.

[HerenIstarion]

by Mithadan

There is, by the way, an alternative translation for "mith".

the only other one I can recall at a go is "mist, fog"
Are you FoggyMan? smilies/wink.gif

as per my [alas un]humble person, I beat you all. (yes, even you, burra) For I'm 5 persons at once, and it suits me well. I'm wise like 5 wizards, but only 1/5 of me is working properly, one 1/5 is careless, 2/5 are straying no one knows were, and 1/5 is treacherous. The case for medical study, somehow

I were Tar-Ancalime on BD forum for one day, for I liked her much, yet than it dawned onto me I was mistaken for a lady, which I'm not, and having tried to register as Olorin, which was already taken, I've decided to express my (than obvious, if now less so) schizophrenia into a nickname

here we are, with Order of Wizards all in my head

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Disturbing... smilies/wink.gif I was somewhat suprised the name wasn't already taken when I signed up last month. Well, there's an Arvedui III, but I guess that's not quite the same.

~Menelien

[BethoHOG]

Betho is my nickname all my friends in real life and online call me.

HOG (all caps) stands for House Of God, which is what my name, Bethany, means.

[peony_foxburr]

Mine came from the Chris Wetherell hobbitname generator--because I liked the sound of it better than BD's--and used my maiden name because otherwise I would have been a Hardbottle smilies/smile.gif--and "Peony Foxburr" was "of Loamsdowne." Which suits my avocation of digging in the dirt.

[Yavanna228]

I suppose I chose mine because I like Yavanna, I like the sound of the name, and because I love the earth and its beauty. 228 are just some random numbers I tacked on the end, because 87, my birth year, just didn't look 'right' to me smilies/smile.gif So there is the etymology of my nickname...hurrah!
Peace

[Lyra Greenleaf]

Simple explanation- I used it somewhere else and was in a rush to get posting!

In fact Lyra is from 'His Dark MAterials'- a fantastic trilogy by Philip Pullman which made me cry. And Lyra reminded me of me, in some ways, and I think it's a lovely naem. Greenleaf was pretty much a homage to Orlando Bloom, sad as it is to admit it! smilies/wink.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

Mine came in two parts: _Flame, because I'm a pyro smilies/evil.gif and Sapphire, because it went with my pen-name at FF.net, SapphireMeriadocTook.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

as per my [alas un]humble person, I beat you all. (yes, even you, burra) For I'm 5 persons at once, and it suits me well. I'm wise like 5 wizards, but only 1/5 of me is working properly, one 1/5 is careless, 2/5 are straying no one knows were, and 1/5 is treacherous. The case for medical study, somehow *Sophia howls with laughter*

And as for my name... Sophia the Thunder Mistress was a nickname *cringes* given to me by a guy. I was looking for a name for Messenger, and he thought it up out of the blue. I find it apt, because I'm a philosophy major at school, and Sophia is rooted in the same word as philosophy (My greek is terrible, so I'm not going any farther into it than that). And the Thunder Mistress bit? Who doesn't want to chuck around lightning bolts at random smilies/biggrin.gif. I sure wouldn't mind.

Sophia

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

smilies/biggrin.gif
In fact Lyra is from 'His Dark MAterials'- a fantastic trilogy by Philip Pullman which made me cry. Me too. (That's a great place to have chosen your nick.) I love those books. I reread the ending of The Amber Spyglass in the middle of the night a lot... *goes off to find it*

~Menelien

[The Only Real Estel]

My nick origianlly came from aragorn's name when he was in Rivendell ( Estel ). Imagine my suprise when I found out some one else was useing my name in the chat rooms ( yes, I was useing it first )! So I had my name be The Only Real Estel ( you can probably figure out why... ) smilies/cool.gif

[Helkahothion]

I got Helkahothion from the name generator. I later asked Maikadilwen if it really ment André(my real name) but it didn't. SO she directed me to Vanimaedhel and she gave me the real elvish name: Anuion. I still am floating on the clouds with that name smilies/biggrin.gif

[Sapphire_Flame]

Anuion. I still am floating on the clouds with that name
I could tell. smilies/wink.gif How was this figured out anyway?

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

Well, there is a way to get your real ME names... Menelien is my Elvish one (not sure whether Quenya or Sindarin, but oh well), but lets not go all the way off topic... smilies/wink.gif

~Menelien

[Sapphire_Flame]

I can't remember the elven name I got on the Downs name generator, but the translation of my real name, Sarah, is Berethiel. And this isn't exactly off-topic, GOTO. Don't worry. smilies/biggrin.gif

[Arafangwen]

Mine's from the name generator here, guess that was no big suprise to you guys. I have a few others I would rather be called now that I think of it... but no matter, it's to late anyhow.

[Carlas]

Back when I was known as Athril on the chat! It feels like forever, I was such a teeny-bopper! Anyways, I was chatting with a bunch of people (I think Legolas was one of them) and we were talking about that name, Legolas, and how it ment Greenleaf. They said that Car was red, though I don't think that is accurate, but I changed it to Carlas, and have forever loved it!

[Helkahothion]

How was this figured out anyway?

According to the bible, André is short for Andreas, and that means: The male, the strong. Vanimaedhel translated the biblic translation to elfish, (Queneyan I believe) and out came the word Anui- the ON is just a male ending to make it more name-like if you know what I mean. (they have a word for that, but I can't quite remember it.)

It's funny since André, and Anuion kinda resemble each other.

[Meela]

A film.

[ArathorofBarahir]

My nickname is the name of the main character of the novel I am writing. His name is Arathor and the region he hails from is the region of Barahir.

[Thenamir]

"Thenamir" was originally made up right out of the blue, off the top of my head. It was before I had discovered chat, or RP (at the ancient age of 36...I led a deprived childhood). My daughter was doing a little real-time freeform RP with some friends, and I found it interesting enough to want to join in. But I had to have a nick in a hurry. I wanted something that sounded Gondorian in origin, and so applied a mixture of letters from my real first name (known only to a select few) with the suffix "-mir" as in Faramir and Boromir -- hence "Thenamir"

It was not until many months afterwards that I asked an elvish expert (Sharku) whether there might be an actual meaning to the name. The "mir" suffix, of course, means "jewel", but "Thena" was tougher to parse. Sharku however came up with a couple of near-hits: "thina" (meaning "grey", hence, "thinamir", "grey-jewel") or possibly a corrupted pronunciation of "tinta" (meaning "sparkling", hence "tintamir", "sparkling-jewel"). Of course, any meaning assigned to the made-up name is purely coincidental, but it's nice to know I wasn't completely off-base in my chosen nick.

[vanwalossien]

I got my nick from the name generator, it wasn't until quite a bit later I figured out what my name really is in Elvish (Hiriel in Sindarin, Heriel in Quenya). I don't think a man has EVER given me a nickname.
One of my most used nicknames I got from a guy in my class, I don't really want to know why he thought of nicknaming me Ingvild Wormtongue... smilies/rolleyes.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Bashbrug the Thug]

yet another name generator victim smilies/smile.gif

i was looking for an elvish translation of my real name john (maybe to get tattooed in tengwar)but couldnt seem to find a list of translations anywhere

[Faenaduial]

I wanted an elven name containing something about the stars and the night.

My nick is Sindarin meaning "radiant evening".

[Horse-Maiden of the Shire]

Ican't remember where I got mine from. Outta left field, I suppose...

[StarJewel]

I came up with mine because I thought it was a rought translation of "Miriel". Then again, this was a 3 a.m., and I was kind of tired, so who knows?

[ October 08, 2003: Message edited by: StarJewel ]

[QuickSlash]

Ah, some of these are very interesting. Good thread. <3.

My nickname is one that I've used many different places. For a while, it was what I registered with everywhere. QuickSlash was two different RP characters for me: one was a wildcat for a few lovely Redwall RPGs, and the other was a cheetah to go with a seperate char for a Ronin Warriors RPG. The Ronin Warriors one is still going, and I just posted there today. <3.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

yet another name generator victim

I was one...My name sounded funny, though. Then when I translated my name (with a little modification, that is) it came out Elenrod. And now I can't change my screen-name...oh, well, I fitted it into my History in Middle Earth, anyway...

Question: paur means fist; what does nil mean? All I came up with is -n(d)il, which means devotion.

Wala lang!
->The True Son of Finrod, and of Amarie the Vanyar

[ October 09, 2003: Message edited by: Nilpaurion Felagund ]

[Morima]

Carlas: Yeah, carnë means red in quenya smilies/smile.gif

Vanwalossien: Aww ... that's kinda sweet tho, lol!

Morima means (wrongly) black-hand in quenya, cos a character I wrote about is cursed so that she brings total bad luck over everyone she touches. So she wears black gloves always and is called Morima. The right spelling is Mórimár or sumthing I guess smilies/smile.gif

[Orofaniel]

My nick comes from The Barrowdowns Name Generator. I just typed in my real name, and Orofaniel appeard on my screen, there were also a bunch of other names....Hobbit name, Orc name etc. I chose the elven name o'course. It's orignally written Orofâniel, but I dropped the '^' over the a..... smilies/biggrin.gif

[aragornreborn]

Well, it would have been nice to have had an elvish translation for my name that I really, really liked. Still searching...

Anyway, well, when I saw the movies and read the books, Aragorn stuck out as a really great character and one that I could identify with - or at least strive to be like. (So did Faramir, but by the time I got to that part in the books, Aragorn had become ingrained as my favorite [and FaramirIsHere just didn't have the same ring to it :P ]. Although, Faramir is probably a closer representation of me. He seems more human and lighter than noble Aragorn).

Anywaaaay, to actually get to the point, aragornreborn just sort of popped into my head. So here I am!

[Finwe]

On other message boards before this, I was known as "Aredhel" since my personality is remarkably like hers, but I decided to change it to Finwë since he was the one who had "started it all." Come on, how many chances do you get to marry two people, one of which is a Vanyarin bimbo???? (Even though I'm a girl; the term "bimbo" could apply to guys.)

[vanwalossien]

Vanwalossien: Aww ... that's kinda sweet I doubt if he meant it to be sweet, but I kinda liked it. He knows that, and it greatly annoys him smilies/biggrin.gif

[Alkanoonion]

My nick name is the elvish translation of my real name derived from using the downs name generator.

[Luthien_ Tinuviel]

As to my name, is it really that hard? smilies/rolleyes.gif I constantly regret the fact that I tried to divide the words with an underscore, not knowing that for once in a lifetime this wonderful forum would actually allow me to have spaces in my name. But I guess the underscore serves to divide me from the scores of other Luthiens and Tinuviels haunting this ghostly barrow.

LePetitChoux, I've always loved your nick. I like cabbage, too. Are you French, by any chance? You look rather European.

Orual, your name has always intrugued me as well. I saw your name on a thread for the first time right after I had read Til We Have Faces, so I recognized it. Very cool.

I feel so unoriginal......

[ October 10, 2003: Message edited by: Luthien_ Tinuviel ]

[tom bombariffic]

Well, my name was just cos I like Tom Bombadil. But I couldn't actually put Tom Bombadil because, lamentably, I'm not him. And because he's so splendidly bombatastic I decided to call myself that. But it looked too much like bombastic for my liking so I settled for this. hoom hom.

[Naurwen_of_Lothlorien]

Naurwen=Fire Maiden.

I'm a maiden and I love fire, so I found it quite fitting. I did a lot (read 'a bit') of work to get that!

And at the time of making the nick I was going through an "Wow, Elves and Lothlorien are great!" phase. So Naurwen of Lothlorien.

Plus I think it's fun to say outloud. Go on, say it. You know you want to. See, didn't that feel nice?

It's quite funny actually, because I'm a hobbit with an elf name. How pretty. And I'm actually of Hobbiton, not Lothlorien.

Hmmm...

Yours identity-crisesedly,
(Not even a word, I know)

~Naurwen of Hobbiton.

[Elfwine]

Elfwine, son of Eomer, prince of the Golden Hall. Real original, I know. What can I say? My muse was on a coffee break.

I perhaps would have chosen Mordolien, the name I got from the generator here at the Barrow-Downs, but I didn't feel too Elvish at the time.

[Tinuviel of Denton]

Yours is more original than mine, Elfwine. I'm just one of the many, many Tinuviels...I should have gone with Akedhi, but I hadn't made her up yet. (At least Akedhi doesn't lend itself to such awful nicknames. Like 'Tinny.' smilies/rolleyes.gif )

The Denton is the name of one of the towns where I've lived.

[Ellona]

When I first saw Ellona I liked it. It means Dark Star (really me). Its meant to be Éllóna with the accents but it wouldn’t let me register with them. If anyone knows how to put the accents into your name when registering please could you PM me, this is my first post so I don’t mind registering again.

Thanks,
Éllóna

[Beren87]

it wouldn’t let me register with them.

It should have. Use the codes in the FAQ section in Novices and Newcomers.

[Amanaduial the archer]

Gah, I'm so rubbish at accents...

Another name thrown out from the BDs name generator. However, if you actually looked up my full name now in the name generator, it would give you a different name - Ascahyandel. It changes ever so often. Pity - I really like that name. Still, Blessed Night works fine for me...

[Amarantha_Daisy]

Another name generator person... From the *Hobbit* name generator, mind you. No elves for me smilies/cool.gif

Actually, Amarantha is my friend's hobbit name, not mine...But I liked hers better, so I stole it smilies/evil.gif Daisy is mine, so I figured I'd use them both, to make it fair...

[burrahobbit]

What do you know, my name was also generated by The Hobbit!

[Everdawn]

Everdawn= Like me, always bright like morning light smilies/biggrin.gif ok that rhymed... getting spooky... I think i read somewhere in fairy lore that Everdawn was a fairy maid.

[Elvish Assassin]

Meela: A film That film wouldn't by any chance be "Cave Dwellers" would it?

[andreadawn]

My nick is my first and middle name squished together (how creative!) but it works for me. It sounds like something you might encounter in Tolkien's worlds.

[Meela]

Actually, it's from The Mummy Returns smilies/smile.gif

[Elvish Assassin]

Oh, ok. lol

[NightKnight]

I like darkness, and I like knights and medieval warfare. I was going to be Knight of the Night on an online RPG, but it was too long so I shortened it down to NightKnight. smilies/smile.gif

[steve]

most people think i got steve because it is my name, but it isnt, steve is short for "Shire Traversing Ethereal Vehichal of Eternity"

[Ealasaide]

Mine's very dull...the Scottish version of my real name, Elizabeth. It was originally spelled Ealasaid, but since I had a problem with my registration, I had to reregister. That's when I added the "e" on the end.

[mark12_30]

Ealasaide... I've always thought it was a lovely, lovely name.

[Ealasaide]

Thank you, Mark! Actually, I am very fond of the name Ealasaide, too. I keep trying to think of ways to use it in the real world, rather than just online. I feel more like an Ealasaide than an Elizabeth, if you get my meaning.

Anyway, when I said dull, I was referring to the story of how I happened to to be using the name. You have to admit that that story is not very exciting! smilies/smile.gif

[andreadawn]

Ealasaide, I thought that your name was a Tolkien name, it's really pretty and cool.

[Ealasaide]

Thanks, Andreadawn! I like your nick, too. Very pretty! smilies/smile.gif

[Ainaserkewen]

Woot! Go name generator! I happen to like my name, even though I didn't chose it. Actually, it's probably better that I didn't. Can you imagine if people had to chose their own names? I'd be hard. I have a new account at elftown.com and my name there is Lomlinwen, which I actually devised for my own. Echo of the holy music. It suits me well, I think. Anyway, I like all the diverse names on this site, some are pretty, others silly, or just the name of the user, it's all here!!!

[Lhunardawen]

I would like to thank the Elf-name Generator for my name... smilies/biggrin.gif

But I was able to relate my name to my Elf life... you see, I am Gil-galad's wife, and Lhunardawen roughly means the Maiden of the Lune Region, which was where Gil-galad and I lived.

smilies/biggrin.gif

[MLD-Grounds-Keeper-Willie]

I think I posted on a similar thread, but whatever.

The Grounds-Keeper-Willie part is easy. The Simpsons is my favorite show and Willie is one of my favorite characters. His name somewhat represents me since I'm Irish, and Willie (who's Scottish) was the closest character to being Irish. As for putting dashes in between, I did that because I didn't know if groundskeeper was one word or not and I just wanted to register.

As for the MLD, it is what my close friends and I call each other. At first we were called the Cigarette Crew. Our other friends who we drank with on the weekends called us that. Whenever we would come to a spot in the park at night and they were already there, they would see the little red dots from the tips of our cigarettes and when one of them would ask, "Who is that?" another friend would shout out, "It's the Cigarette Crew!" Well, after a while, a couple more of us became close friends, but not all of use smoked. So we decided that we needed a name for us that actually represented us (even though we are sometimes called by that name). We all drank 40's, and almost always they were malt liquor. So we called ourselves Malt Liquor Drinkers; MLD.

And that's how I got my nickname.

[Amanaduial the archer]

Willie wins the prize for the best story behind the nick! smilies/wink.gif smilies/biggrin.gif

[Tuor Turambar,Cursed by the Valar]

TYPO! Actually, a misthought-- for 1 second, I thought his name actually was Tuor Turambar. Then i realized- but it was too late.

I am not stuck with it, and i type it more natually than how it really goes.
(TuRIN Turambar)

[Eöl]

well, everyone can guess this, when i read the silm for the first time i was intrigued by eöl, his solitude and strange behaviour for an elf. And offcourse his skill and his galvorn intrigues me still smilies/smile.gif

[Finwe]

Haha! One more person got fooled by my nickname, and thought that I was a guy. This is becoming infinitely amusing!

[Trippo The Hippo]

hmm I could have swarn I posted here a while ago and I came back to read it again. But it appears i have yet to post it here so my nick comes from a character me and my friend came up with. He also has a cousin or brother (I cant remember) name Flippo The Hippo. But Trippo is such an underdog and I always root for the underdog.

[Oddwen]

Trippo!!! I was just thinking of and missing you!! Welcome back!

I got my name from combining Odd (which I am) and Wen (elvish for maiden, which I am also) and got Oddwen. My fake last name is Floddball, if anyone wanted to care. smilies/rolleyes.gif

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Haha! One more person got fooled by my nickname, and thought that I was a guy. This is becoming infinitely amusing!

You aren't?!?! GASP!!!

Nah, just kidding. I first read it in Elvish Insults.

Oddwen Floddball...interesting...

Later days! smilies/cool.gif
->Elenrod

P.S. GASP = Go Away, Shocking Person!

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 4:41 AM December 12, 2003: Message edited by: Nilpaurion Felagund ]

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Ah... My name... Feanor of the Peredhil. It's got a long, complicated and slightly embarrassing history.

My brother showed me the 'Downs a couple years back and I eventually decided to register. (At this time I had never read the Silmarillion). I couldn't think of a name, although now I can think of a half dozen better... so I found a list of Elvish words online. I saw the name Feanor and that it meant Fiery Spirit, or thereabouts, and I thought "hahaha... everybody thinks I'm a pyro and i do enjoy causing mischief. Perfect." So there is the Feanor part. Of course it helped that my said brother complained about me picking a 'boy' name... I could have done Feanorwen... but NO!

As for "of the Peredhil", I was in the midst of a stage where all of my creative writing had characters of something (ex: Princess Miriam Anamaeri Julietta Serafina of Ayvieron). So I decided to give tribute to all of the Half-Elves out there and stick that in there. And Voila! The history of my name.

I just make it simpler and go by Fea on here...

Fea

[Aredhel Ar-Feiniel]

I was reading the Silmarillion and the story of Aredhel Ar Feiniel relly touched me. And ive been a fan of hers ever since.

[King Elessar]

i just got this one coz i knew no one else had it!

[Pyroclastic]

Pyroclastic: Extrusive volcanic rock fragments, such as volcanic ash (pyroclastic ash) or volcanic bombs. At least, thats what I understood during the five minitues I payed attention in Goelogy 101. I know how geologists love to prove they know more than everybody else, so go ahead, if you feel so inclined.

Pyroclastic is sort of related to Mt. Doom exploding, so it's Tolkien enough to work. And as an added bonus, you can call me Pyro for short! (My nickname from Chemistry Lab, you don't want details!) And as an added added bonus, I get to have an absolutly amazing avatar!

Flames! ~Pyro~

[Elrond of Rivendell]

Hmmm ... if I remember correctly, Elrond was some character from Tolkien's works smilies/biggrin.gif

No, I always liked him best, but unfortunaley as I registered only last month the real "Elrond" was already taken, so I had to add "of Rivendell".

EfR

[Cinderella]

I actually used to be Tinuviel87, which I was rather fond of. Tinuviel as I quite adore Luthien, and 87 as it's the year I was born. But I had to reregister so I took my name from one of my favorite poems by Sylvia Plath (no, it's not from the Disney movie smilies/tongue.gif )And now it's stuck and I use it all the time. I often wish I had a more Elvish name though... smilies/biggrin.gif

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 6:03 PM January 22, 2004: Message edited by: Cinderella ]

[Finwe]

Well, I fooled one more person today with my very male nick! smilies/biggrin.gif

I think it's absolutely great how people somehow impose certain qualities of the name that you chose (if you chose the name of a character) upon you. For example, I've actually met a couple of people who thought that I was a man, and married, to boot! I'm not married, and I'm most definitely NOT a man! smilies/biggrin.gif

[Ainaserkewen]

Hah! Cinderella, we're the same age. I'm an 87 to.

I just found this great only elvish dictionary and I found out what my nick means finally. By the way, I got it from the name generator. Aina=holy serke=blood and of course wen=maiden. I think that's kind of cool. Who made the name generator names anyway? Was it Sharku or the BW or both or what?

[Cinderella]

The name generator gave me Nuryavie, which is v. beautiful, but I don't know what it means so I didn't want to use it. smilies/tongue.gif

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 9:49 PM January 26, 2004: Message edited by: Cinderella ]

[elfearz1]

not sure if I've already posted here, but mine comes from the dark corridors of my demented brain. I like Elves, I have pointy ears and I just thought it was creative. (apparently a lot of people do too, since many have stole my name on other sites. smilies/mad.gif )

<font size=1 color=339966>[ 8:19 PM January 27, 2004: Message edited by: elfearz1 ]

[Eorl of Rohan]

Well, mine is pretty obvious. Eorl is my FAVORITe character from all Tolkien's works.

I first tried for Eorl the Young, but found it was taken. Then I tried "Eorl of the field of Celebrant" but it was too long and I could not spell Celebrant.

Technically my name is not correct because the land was only named Rohan after Eorl aided Gondor in the battle of Celebrant - but I liked the sound of the name, so I took it.

By the way, my roleplay character's name is Ferethor - guess how I made it? My next two favorite characters Faramir and Denethor combined.

[Saraphim]

My nick is not Tolkien-related at all. I came across it in my vague studies and liked it.

'saraphim', or, actually, 'saraph' is a very old word for angel, in either hebrew, latin or sanskrit. 'saraphim' is actually the plural form, and that is why i signature my PM's with Saraph.

It might sound familiar because one of the characters in The Matrix (two and three)is named Saraph, which I thought was a nice touch, considering how bad the last two were. But that is another story.

[Imladris]

I have finally decided to tell everybody why I chose "Imladris" for my name:

1. Elwing was already taken *downcast look and sigh*

2. I've always liked Rivendell and I remembered that Imladris was the elvish word Rivendell (and, in my most humble opinion, Imladris sounds better).

3. For somer reason the line, "Seek for the sword that was broken, in Imladris it dwells" was stuck in my head that entire day...

4. I could spell it with ease... smilies/tongue.gif No offense to anyone present. smilies/tongue.gif smilies/wink.gif

[Sleepy Ranger]

Well I've decided I won't keep it a secret anymore.
Well I like rangers that made the second part of my name.
Now the Sleepy is a long story. I'll make it short.
I went three consecutive days sleeping in class in Physics without getting caught and thus was given the nick of Sleepy. And I was president of the Sleepers Club :rolleyes: until I finally gave uo my good hobbit....ooops habbit. And so I put 'em together and got Sleepy Ranger

[Thorongil]

It's quite obvious, but if you haven't guessed it, my nick is one of Aragorns names, meaning "Eagle of the Star". He used this name in his earlier travels of Gondor and Rohan.

[Sam's Amy]

This nickname is actually a new one for me as I used to go by Arathiriel here, a name I got from the generator and never really cared for after I found out my real name is more closely translated to Meldewen...

Anyway, you would think I'd use Meldewen as my handle - well recently on another group I am in I started using Sam's Amy since I love the character of Samwise Gamgee so much in LOTR - and thus you know now why I use the nickname Sam's Amy !

[Phervasaion]

Gt mine from the Elvish name generator. I never knew actually how to say it though. My friend asked me what my nickname was on the downs and I went 'Pher..er..something along those lines' I had to write it down for them.

[Thorongil]

My name on the generator is Girithlaith. I used a Translator and found that girith means horror. Can anyone help me with the rest?

[evenstar_0404]

I choosed my nick due to lack of fantasy. It was entering a chat room in Norway and saw that it was an Aragorn there.
Since than I have used it on everything. Even on my hotmail adress. But I think I will change it to the name that the generator gave me, which is Amantalatwen. Anyone who now's what that mean ?

[Kransha]

Funny story actually...well, more complicated than funny.

It originated in a discussion with my friends about names of bizarre creatures. We had discussed already existent mythological beasts with weird names, but soon made up some of our own. We had a strange name for an aquatic animal called a Hsnark, which is a lot like shark with re-arranged letters. We were also discussing orc names and how to get them, combining black speech words and suffixes I had in my posession. My friend concluded that good names for orcs were verb titles like Smiter, Smasher, and Crunsher or some such thing. We then intertwined the two discussions, contemplating how our orc, Zhuzbluk the Crunsher, would react to being eaten by a Hsnark. Somehow, during this discussion, I realized that "A hsnark" is "Kransha" spelled backwards, which was awfully similar to Crunsher. Weird coincidence. For some reason, I've loved that name ever since.

[Alexus Varus]

I created my name from Varus, the Roman general of the Germany disaster In A.D. 9 where he lead 3 liegions of troops throught the woods and the barbarians killed them all... Dont ask me why i liked the guy, he was foolish, but on the other hand, he did have a cool name, plus he reminds me of Denethor. I put Alexus before it becuase it sounded like a cool Romanish name.

[warrenerd]

i was here a long time ago under the name of mossy, which was short for mossflower, which was a fantasy series i was reading at the time. but, one day, i came back with my sister under the name of mossy. well, the operator didn't like us very much, because we weren't talking about lotr, and he kicked both of us. so we couldn't come back in as our old names. i was talking to my sister on a different channel and i asked her what my new name should be. and she made a reference to the movie, empire records, where warren gets kicked out of the store and he shouts "i'll be back and you'll be sorry!" warren was the stupid, obnoxious, minor of the movie, so it wasn't a very good character to take after or anything, but i thought it would be funny to take the name anyway. so i did. and it sort of stuck. so that's where my name comes from.

[Mister Underhill]

Attachments should be used prudently. We're not going to spend space on off-topic attachments, so I've deleted the one you added to your post, warrenerd.

[Maeggaladiel]

I got my name via the name generator here at the Downs. As far as I can tell, it translates to "Woman of Piercing Radiance." Wishful thinking, mind you, since I'm anything but radiant, but sounds so pretty. It kinda rolls off the tongue. Maeggaladiel. Maeee-gaaa-laaa-deee-uuuhhl. Yeah.

~Maeg
Oh yeah, and it looks neat when you shorten it to "Maeg."

[Eowyn Skywalker]

I'm still not quite sure where Eowyn Skywalker came from, but I am her, and she is me! Me... me... me...

Okay, as far as I can tell, apart from the obvious, I wanted a 'crossdimention' user name, is this:

For my birthday, I dressed up as Eowyn.
For my brother's birthday, I dressed up as Darth Maul. I became Darth Eowyn. This was before I came to the Downs... However, on fanfiction.net, I was Elf with a lightsaber, to be more exact, the Elf who stole Luke Skywalker's lightsaber. Also the elf with Luke Skywalker as a co-author later on. However, I love tormenting Luke, by telling him that I am his mother, which came from the fact that I think Anakin is cute. Yeah, I know... So, when I went to get an Email addy, somehow Eowyn Skywalker came from all this... (coughmybrotherislukeifthatmeansanythingtoyoucough ) And well, it sounded cool, reflected my love of Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars, so it clicked, I used it here, and now I'm quite known as Eowyn Skywalker. Everyone likes the name, and the pic, which I HAD to make to become Eowyn Skywalker. So yeah, that's that.

I am odd, but none of the name that the generators came up make any sense, anyhow. :rolleyes:

So Eowyn Skywalker I am, and I am Eowyn Skywalker.

-Eowyn Skywalker, obviously

[Quicksilver_Sprite]

Well, all the names supplied by the name generator sounded peculiar and quite unpronouncable, so I just decided to go for something rather elven, or faerie-like. Sounds cool too.

Quicksilver_Sprite, who has awful eyesight! :p

[Lhundulinwen]

I just took my elven name out of the name generator.... there were already too many Sam's and Gamgee's. It sounds rather boring now.... :eek:

[Ophelia]

I have to confess - I am in love with Shakespeer . And I do not know why , but Ophelia is my favorite female charecter and name out of all his works . So I got my nickname . Not too original or anything , but I just like the way it sounds .


Ophelia

[Sirithheruwen]

Sirithheruwen also came from the name generator. I know, sooooo original. (My voice is dripping with sarcasm.)

If I could pick any other name, however, it would be The Dark Chocolate of the Night which my friends call me at school, due to my *cough*friends*cough* Hershey sweeatshirt that I...ahem...borrow. Too bad you can't change your name. *shuffles off the stage*

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Well, when I first joined I tried about 100 different names but I wasn't allowed any of them, or so I thought. The name wasn't the problem, it was the fact that I had put the same email address which I had used for a previous identity. When I finally realised that it was the address and not the name, I changed the address and left the name (which would have been the 100th different name I tried) and all of a sudden I had an account with that name!

Ever since then I've been called Eomer of the Rohirrim. I have a love-hate relationship with the name. It is very bitty and awkward, yet at the same time I have grown used to it and even fond of it, and Eomer is one of my favourite characters anyway.

[symestreem]

This is actually my second BD account. I was trying to make the account name 'Tasarewen', and I used as the password the last name of a character; unfortunately, I didn't read the field labels carefully enough. Hence, I ended up with 'symestreem' as my publicly displayed name.

[ohtatyaro]

In the Etymologies. It means Warrior :)