What does your screenname mean? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Pyroclastic · 09-11-2004, 07:53 PM

Well thank you Latchwen, I'm flattered. I really wanted to find something both geologic and LOTR realted, and I'm pleased with the result.

~Pyro~

Avie · 09-17-2004, 05:17 AM

Terrifyingly nerdile as it is I chose my screen-name in homage to Apple Computer's Great High Poobah of software. Tragic I know.
Could be worse though. I very nearly went with Teleporno for sheer amusement value

Estelyn Telcontar · 09-17-2004, 10:34 AM

Welcome to the Downs, Avie! Your alternate possible name choice would have surprised a lot of people who haven't read HoME! I wonder what Tolkien would think if he realized the connotations of that name nowadays...

Avie · 09-17-2004, 11:17 AM

Thank you for your kind welcome. Happy to be here!
One indeed wonders if the good professor had been over-indulging in the pipeweed when he came up with that particular linguistic gem

As you say though, words change their connotations over time. No doubt Prof T would revolve in his grave to think that his noble Elf creation now conjures up visions of....erm....certain specialist telecommunications services!

Elennar Starfire · 09-17-2004, 07:26 PM

Aiea....

Mithalwen · 09-23-2004, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

Welcome to the Downs, Avie! Your alternate possible name choice would have surprised a lot of people who haven't read HoME! I wonder what Tolkien would think if he realized the connotations of that name nowadays...

I half wonder if it even occured and maybe someone had to point it out to him ...surely if he noticed such things he wouldn't have called the Uruk/Orc in Cirith Ungol (not Gorbag) THAT.... but maybe it just meant a type of tobacco or a bird like a cormorant then........

Encaitare · 09-23-2004, 03:33 PM

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I half wonder if it even occured and maybe someone had to point it out to him ...surely if he noticed such things he wouldn't have called the Uruk/Orc in Cirith Ungol (not Gorbag) THAT.... but maybe it just meant a type of tobacco or a bird like a cormorant then........ --Mith

Indeed.

Welcome to all those recently deceased!

elronds_daughter · 09-23-2004, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I half wonder if it even occured and maybe someone had to point it out to him ...surely if he noticed such things he wouldn't have called the Uruk/Orc in Cirith Ungol (not Gorbag) THAT.... but maybe it just meant a type of tobacco or a bird like a cormorant then........

I'm sure Professor Tolkien is twisting and turning in his grave over our horrid slang...

ohtatyaro · 09-24-2004, 01:14 AM

I'm glad this thread is not dead, but lives one

. I mean, thank you for all the feedback, yes

09-24-2004, 07:51 AM

Lindo means Songbird.

09-11-2004, 07:53 PM	#1
Pyroclastic Haunting Spirit Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mordor University, Wisconsin Campus Posts: 83	Well thank you Latchwen, I'm flattered. I really wanted to find something both geologic and LOTR realted, and I'm pleased with the result. ~Pyro~ __________________ If You Can't Beat 'Em, Cheat 'Em!

09-17-2004, 10:34 AM	#3
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Welcome to the Downs, Avie! Your alternate possible name choice would have surprised a lot of people who haven't read HoME! I wonder what Tolkien would think if he realized the connotations of that name nowadays... __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

09-17-2004, 07:26 PM	#5
Elennar Starfire Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Nowhere...now here Posts: 952	Aiea.... __________________ Don't let me die!

09-24-2004, 01:14 AM	#9
ohtatyaro Wight Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: here, there, everywhere... Posts: 121	hey, it's still alive I'm glad this thread is not dead, but lives one . I mean, thank you for all the feedback, yes __________________ Reading this sig costs three Galleons, nine Sickles, and a Knut. Pay up!

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09-17-2004, 05:17 AM	#2
Avie Pile O'Bones Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: London, UK Posts: 20	Terrifyingly nerdile as it is I chose my screen-name in homage to Apple Computer's Great High Poobah of software. Tragic I know. Could be worse though. I very nearly went with Teleporno for sheer amusement value

09-17-2004, 11:17 AM	#4
Avie Pile O'Bones Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: London, UK Posts: 20	Thank you for your kind welcome. Happy to be here! One indeed wonders if the good professor had been over-indulging in the pipeweed when he came up with that particular linguistic gem As you say though, words change their connotations over time. No doubt Prof T would revolve in his grave to think that his noble Elf creation now conjures up visions of....erm....certain specialist telecommunications services!

09-24-2004, 07:51 AM	#10
Lindo Guest Posts: n/a	Lindo means Songbird.