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Also it gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally. (Tolkien)
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Interesting, no? He didn't come up with the story first, and then ponder possible names for the characters; instead a character's name made him think of a specific story to fit that character. That's partly responsible for the realistic quality of his tales (if one can call fantasy realistic, which I believe one can). So names were hardly given at random and most of the time they have double meaning: one in the context of Middle Earth, the other, in the context of our real world, if one is lucky (or learned) enough to decypher them.
Yavanna, the link you provided is not working
so I'll put here my recent discovery (though one you may be already familiar with): the city of Edinburgh in Celtic is called Dunedin (Dunedain, anyone? Now we know where Rangers come from
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