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03-18-2005, 08:08 AM
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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Alas, I've never yet had a LotR related nickname, despite having had rather more nicknames than is good for one person (including cyclops, paddington, duracell etc.). But, there is a manager in a room not far from me right now who goes by the name of Gollum, so alike is he to the creature. He not only sounds like Gollum, but he also looks like him, and has something of the Gollum personality, being overly attached to his 'precious' office while all around are forced into the cattle shed atmosphere of the open plan area.
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03-18-2005, 10:18 AM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Standing amidst the slaughter I have wreaked upon the orcs
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My girlfriend referred to me as Neurion once (Elvish form of my Christian name), or she would have if she was my girlfriend, I mean, she did call me that, but we don't really have the formal boyfriend/girlfriend relationship, I mean, she lives quite a long ways away from me and I don't get to see her that often....this probably doesn't count, does it?
 
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____________________________________ "And a cold voice rang forth from the blade. Yea, I will drink thy blood, that I may forget the blood of Beleg my master, and of Brandir slain unjustly. I will slay thee swiftly." Last edited by Neurion; 03-20-2005 at 02:45 PM. |
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03-18-2005, 12:28 PM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Oh and there was me wondering if you and davem used screen names or real ones..
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03-18-2005, 05:20 PM
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
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 But, isn't a nickname something only someone else can give to you?
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03-20-2005, 01:08 PM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Oh I wasn't thinking that specifically... reminds me of my linguistics lecturer asking if a jam pot was still a jampot once you had eaten the jam and were using it to hold pencils....
Have you been planting bugging devices around the house? No ..... not my style apart from not knowing where or how.......... So a screen name is more a nom de guerre / nom de clavier? If a nickname can only be given by someone else then on the whole I loathe them... since most of mine were unwanted gifts from my unpleasant sibling or pupils.... apart from La Duquesa...  so on the whole I prefer the name I have chosen for myself 
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03-20-2005, 02:00 PM
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: perpetual uncertainty
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Ah, nicknames... Like Lal said, I've got more names that I respond to than is (or ought to be) natural, some being Professor, Red, Jori, Jack, Grace...
But, incredible as it may seem I also have picked up a few monikers in the way of Middle Earth-ish type stuff. My old English teacher refers to me as "Ah, here comes the wizard" and when I mention hunger, it's my "hobbit side coming out." I've even been referred to as "Tolkien" himself. Fea |
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03-20-2005, 02:04 PM
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Stormdancer of Doom
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars
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Impressive, Fea!
One young, tall, blond, angular-faced friend got nicknamed "Gregolas". A friend named Rachel got called Rachelf. The tall, thin, mischievous guy that hunts with my husband, used to show up at our house while we were gone and chop & stack wood for fun. He got nicknamed "The Wood Elf." He's a decent archer, too. One friend calls me Frodo (I call her Sam.) Another appends "-Hobbit" to my given name, while I always call her by her screen name. And a third calls me Elf-Princess. (I don't mind, since I'm married to Strider.)
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03-20-2005, 02:14 PM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Erm well offline, I wouldn't say I was in the closet about it but I tend to keep the extent of my Tolkienism under wraps - at least until after the secret handshake...
I did do an assignment with a fellow fan and (we referred to the company concerned as "mordor ...". Fea your nicknames are rather better than "Piglet", and "The Honey Monster" .. 
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“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace Last edited by Mithalwen; 03-20-2005 at 02:25 PM. |
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03-23-2005, 01:55 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: As with the flygja
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Someone said I was "Old School" the other day... Then called me Gandalf...
I feel SO cool right now...  Plus, My friend has accidently called me 'Frodo'... but I highly doubt that the excuse of 'an accident' was the truth. This accident stuck, and their only reasoning is that our eyes are the same colour... That one made me:  , then, well... I thought about it I guess. My conclusion: "Gahhh! grrahr! ... Are they really that blue?" I guess the world may never know... ~ Confused Ka
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