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

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.

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09-24-2004, 07:51 AM	#5
Lindo Guest Posts: n/a	Lindo means Songbird.