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VanimaEdhel · 05-11-2003, 01:57 PM

VanimaEdhel was a Virtuous Sackville-Baggins.

My real name was an Unwanted Variag.

My real name with middle name was a Miruvor-drinking Uruk-Hai.

Maybe I'll stick with the Sackville-Baggins.

My full name Elvish name is cool though, it's Firwath(iel/ien/wen/etc). Fîr is "mortal (noun)" and Gwath means "shadow" (the "g" would probably be silent). My full name without middle name would be Esgaltil. "Esgal" means "veil, screen, cover (that hides)" and I couldn't find "til", but I found "till", which means "sharp point". VanimaEdhel yields Ascagollo (sounds Italian to me), for which I could not find any definitions for the roots.

I'd be Lobelia Sackville under my real full name with middle name and all. That's...erm...interesting.

EDIT: Embarrassingly enough, I had no clue what a Variag was, so I looked it up. In the Tolkien Monster Encyclopedia it says:
Variag
The Variags are a people from Khand that allied with Sauron in the war of the ring. They have attacked Gondor several times but defeat has always been the outcome.

I don't know whether that's accurate, but it was all I had to go on (I found the site through searching for "Variag" on google.com)

[ May 11, 2003: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ]

05-11-2003, 01:57 PM	#18
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	VanimaEdhel was a Virtuous Sackville-Baggins. My real name was an Unwanted Variag. My real name with middle name was a Miruvor-drinking Uruk-Hai. Maybe I'll stick with the Sackville-Baggins. My full name Elvish name is cool though, it's Firwath(iel/ien/wen/etc). Fîr is "mortal (noun)" and Gwath means "shadow" (the "g" would probably be silent). My full name without middle name would be Esgaltil. "Esgal" means "veil, screen, cover (that hides)" and I couldn't find "til", but I found "till", which means "sharp point". VanimaEdhel yields Ascagollo (sounds Italian to me), for which I could not find any definitions for the roots. I'd be Lobelia Sackville under my real full name with middle name and all. That's...erm...interesting. EDIT: Embarrassingly enough, I had no clue what a Variag was, so I looked it up. In the Tolkien Monster Encyclopedia it says: Variag The Variags are a people from Khand that allied with Sauron in the war of the ring. They have attacked Gondor several times but defeat has always been the outcome. I don't know whether that's accurate, but it was all I had to go on (I found the site through searching for "Variag" on google.com) [ May 11, 2003: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ] __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes