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03-17-2005, 05:08 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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Having a LotR nickname?
Are you called by a name of a LotR character? Do you have a LotR-related nickname? (Ok, probably: does anyone call you by your screenname except other BD'rs?) Why are you called so? Do you like your nickname? I think it would be nice to reveal these things to everybody...
I'll be the one to start... Some of my friends call me Gandalf or The Green Wizard. (Strange nicknames for a 15 year old girl...)  That's probably because I'm nearly a year older than my these friends and I've also introduced LotR and roleplaying to them. I'm also the GM of our RPG. I also know more abot Arda than they do - I've read more and more carefully, I suppose. They also keep asking my advice in certain things. And I'm probably as short-tempered as Gandalf is. I don't know do I like these nicknames. They really flatter me, but I don't want to be placed above my friends continuously. It can be really horrible. And I don't have a beard, really.  My best friend, who is the most Sam-like person I've ever met, calls me sometimes Mr. Frodo , for example if I ask her to do something for me. And if my friends want to be kind to me they may call me Thinlómien. Hope you have as weird nicknames as I do...
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03-17-2005, 09:46 AM
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Haunted Halfling
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules
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Some of my friends (and even my husband sometimes!) call me Frodo or Mr. Frodo. In fact, some of them don't call me by my real name anymore, opting for this hobbit-alternative! The weird thing about it for me is that I'm probably as old as Frodo (in dog years, anyway!)
 Cheers! Lyta
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03-17-2005, 02:49 PM
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Bittersweet Symphony
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise
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When writing things to me (notes or email), my best friend sometimes uses my Elvish name. And occasionally I am referred to as Jamby of the Woodland Realm (Jamby being a perversion of my real name and the Woodland Realm being how Aragorn refers to Mirkwood in the movie when introducing Legolas).
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03-17-2005, 04:41 PM
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Raffish Rapscallion
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Far from the 'Downs, it seems :-(
Posts: 2,835
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Uh...my six year-old sister calls me 'Frodo', because of my hobbityish (<---that's a word now) hair, if that counts for anything.
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03-17-2005, 06:04 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Where the Moon cries against the snow
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One of my jock friends (in high school, he was more of a friend to one of my other friends), he used to call me Frodo. And one of my other friends remarked me once as Lady Longshanks, she also says I'd make a great Elf.
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03-18-2005, 04:25 AM
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Wight
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Cardiff during term time/Leicester in the holl's
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I love it!!!!!!!
Lot's of my close friends call me Celebuial but they haven't stuck to their Elvish names. Me and my group of friends also call each other Frodo, Evil Hobbitses, Precious, Strider, etc, depending on the mood, or actions of the person concered. For example if I managed to do something without any of my friends noticing I will be called Sneaky Hobbitses when they find out. Similarly we constantly make quotes from the books and films when they spring to mind, e.g: If I managed to get some part of stuck somewhere, or I get a ring stuck on my finger, I will either hear a chorus of "Caught, in a web, soon you'll be... Eaten", or "Take it off us, take it off us!" respectively.
I think this is great! It confuses most people, indeed my mum seems to think that I've been talking in code for years, and those that aren't confused smile at us and nodd with apreciation. It also helps to lighten the mood in an uncomfortable situation. I love using names and quotes in everyday life, it makes things so much more personal and interesting to say "I'm going back to Mordor" when going somewhere you don't want to go, or "I'm going to speak to Smaug" if you've just had an argument with your mother! It add's an extra sparkle to any situation!
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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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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
Location: under the bed
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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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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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03-23-2005, 04:22 AM
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Denethor's True Love
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Mirkwood. With Thranduil... *swoon*
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I'm often referred to as Gollum, due to my gangly features and googly eyes. I used to walk a little faster than my friends, so I would constantly be turning around and yelling "Come on Hobbitses, long way to go yet!" Of course, my friends did actually resemble hobbitses, so we had a little post-TTT-cinema RP going on there.
The tall, blonde appearance and love of swords n' horses, earned me the name of Eowyn. Actually, I think that's the one that really stuck. The only other names I get called are Elf, occasionally Galadriel (again tall and blonde, and that's as far as the resemblance goes). Sometimes I was called Strider, again because of my tendency to walk about three leagues ahead of everyone, trampling around the countryside in Ranger boots.
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03-23-2005, 06:29 AM
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Everlasting Whiteness
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams
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My (ex now) form tutor calls me both Hobbit and Gollum.
Hobbit is form my tendency to always sit on the floor so I look shorter than everyone else, and also for my appetite whoch is at least as large as a hobbits of not larger! Gollum is because during the winter I get cold and so in lessons I sit really curled up on a chair and apparently this reminded him of Gollum. Of course mainly I just get called obsessed as my friend and I find an LotR quote for any given situation. We mostly use "Fool of a took" and "Stupid, fat hobbit" to describe ourselves (or each other) when we realise just how badly we have messed up the latest piece of work!
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03-23-2005, 03:44 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Utah
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At my old school, my friends and I formed a fellowship. I was chosen to be Frodo.
At my new school I'm called Lord of the Rings Girl. We have very few LotR fans here.
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03-23-2005, 10:41 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: As with the flygja
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Hope you find some light at the end of the barrow...People in school just refer to me as 'Art kid' 'Goth Art kid...' I don't mind, since it is true in a sense. I don't mind about a LOTR nickname reference, since there is a substancial number of people who do enjoy Tolkien at my school. I am, if you were to refer to a sub-culture context, a Victorian Goth. ( Just can't have enough of Mr. Aleister Crowley and Mr. Poe!) I better stop before I go into rant... ~ Quoth the Ka, "Nevermore Rant!" Ka
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03-26-2005, 07:44 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Muddy-earth
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I get called lots of names, most cannot be printed here, but then I am an Half-Orc.
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03-31-2005, 05:37 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: The Yellow Submarine....sandwich
Posts: 207
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being tall and dark haired, I'm called Gorny.
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04-01-2005, 01:19 AM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: middle of Nowhere/Norway
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My real name translates to Sindarin as Hiriel, a name I use as my screen name most places (I didn't know it yet when I created my account here, though), and many of my newer friends call me Hiriel most of the time
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05-12-2005, 09:41 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2004
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well to some i am just plain old andrew to others i am amedaous after mozart some call me mantorak the corpse god....and a few very few mind you call morsul
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05-26-2005, 04:59 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: in my own little world
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At school, I've had a sort of sorority who really thinks it weird that I've bought all Tolkien's books everytime our monthly allowance from the mayor arrives...
...and my best friend [whom I've managed to make her read parts of the Sil if not the whole book] called me Morfindel, though I barely liked it. Another sister who I watched the FOTR with called me Lorien later, for a reason I'm still thinking about till now... Then my dad found out about my new names, he began calling me Gollum, because of my obsession with sashimi... duh. Sashimi really isn't fish who's raw and wriggling... |
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05-26-2005, 06:22 PM
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Psyche of Prince Immortal
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Above a Parapet Obvious exits are: North, South, and Dennis
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well i had Tilion as a nickname for awhile because of my love of Silver(i have silver ring, necklace and watch)
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05-27-2005, 05:40 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: In a far land beyond the Sea
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My father and my little sister call me The finnish-Tolkien-finnish -dictionary ...
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05-27-2005, 08:32 PM
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Wight
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Frogmorton, The Shire, Middle-Earth
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A friend at Camp called me Frodo and I called her Sam because on a really tough hike up a hill (I'm borderline asthmatic, so I don't do hiking) she wouldn't leave me and wouldn't let me give up, even though I felt like lying down and dying.
Also, all my friends call me The Hobbit because I'm short. My friend Chandler (Nicknamed Chandish) made me his personal slave/servant, so I call him Mr. Chandish .
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05-27-2005, 11:03 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: As with the flygja
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I have a friend named Autumn ( Seriously, it is her name.) who I call Galadriel, not only because she has freakishly long-golden hair, but she's full of herself entirely. That last bit is something always fun to poke at, and she is constantly trying to make my much shorter friends feel inferior by starring at them. I see a match! Plus, she always has us (my other friends and I. One of which is a giant...) attending her every need when we are her guests! But, she is rather loveable person, and unfortunately once you're in her trap of 'Innocence' your done...
~ Shh! Don't tell Ka
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05-28-2005, 07:02 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Where young people go to retire
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Random Titles with Random nicknames
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As for me, my name does not come from LOTR but a fantasy faery book in it that had the name 'Morai.' I liked it, and later earned the pename 'Folorn Melody.' Kinda lables me as a gothic Goldberry I guess. I also have a friend who I refer to as 'Samwise', (who is a She.) She refers to me as "her-----" (nickname not included for security reasons.)
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05-28-2005, 07:57 PM
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Wight
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Frogmorton, The Shire, Middle-Earth
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I like your name, it's pretty! And that's cool your friend's name is Arwen! I want to name all four of my first children Sam, Frodo, Merry and Pippin............ Regardless of gender. P.S. Just Kidding.
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05-29-2005, 02:06 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Where young people go to retire
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Random Titles on guard....more than once
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By the way, thanks for the compliment. 
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05-29-2005, 03:35 PM
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Wight
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Frogmorton, The Shire, Middle-Earth
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No problem, I like complimenting people!
Yeah, if he would've put everything from the book in the movies we would've had a movie that went as long as the actually journey did. I still think he should've put a few things in, like the scouring of the Shire......... *Chuckle*
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05-31-2005, 04:54 PM
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Pile O'Bones
Join Date: May 2005
Location: North Carolina (moving to Calif.)
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Well, let's see...
I've been called "Lord of the Rings Queen" by my mom, "Elf" by many others "Eowyn" online at times and by others in person (someone who just met me, too!) I've been called Frodo too.. Most commonly I'm called Elf (not to be confused with that insulting holiday film ) and/or Eowyn. and my sister's best friend calls me Master.
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