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Wight
Join Date: Jul 2004
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I've made a search, but I haven't found anything to match it exactly. I mean, there were topics like 'where you youget that nick", but this topic is meant to find out what does your nick mean
Mine is quenya for 'warrior' ![]()
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The Perilous Poet
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Heart of the matter
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<-- Pretension.
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Gibbering Gibbet
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Beyond cloud nine
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Hip hip huzzah! I've been waiting for someone to start this thread so I could crow about how smart I was in creating my screen name.
"fordim" is an archaic verb that means to obscure by casting into darkness (one fordims the living room couch by turning off the lamp) "hedgethistle," well, OK isn't so smart as it's just a compound of (obviously) 'hedge' (in the sense of a bordering hedge meant to mark the boundary of a property for protection: cf the hedge between the Shire and the Old Forest) and 'thistle'. So now that I look at it, I guess it's not that smart at all. ![]()
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<---- My name.
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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<-- Hope Strider - The first name is the feminized version of Aragorn's Sindarin name, chosen during a time when I needed hope, and the last name the Quenya version of his Ranger name, chosen because I am a walker.
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Boromir is exactly Boromir, lol, in a mixture of quenya/sindarin it means "jeweled hand," and it also means "faithful jewel." The 88, just stand for nothing to deal with LOTR, it's the year when both my grandparents died.
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Mine is really boring....it's my first and middle name in Elvish
Megan Marie=Morcarkawen |
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Wight
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Hammering away in Valinor
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i think we all know what mine is
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Mordor University, Wisconsin Campus
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Pyroclastic is a geologic term approximately meaning "volcanic rock fragments". Unfourtounatley, this name has been quite prophetic regarding my geology carreer among other things. Never think that names have no bearing on who we become.
Flames! ~Pyro~
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Pyroclastic - my dad is a geologist, so when I saw your name I immediately had visions of various volcanoes erupting in spectacular fashion (specifically, Mt. St. Helens and Pinatubo). I love you now.
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Mordor University, Wisconsin Campus
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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~
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: London, UK
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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 ![]() |
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Well, it was supposed to refer to Melkor, the ninth high Valar, but I forgot the name of that group (aratar? something like that) and put 'valar' instead. Ah well.
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you were right :)
HoME V1, Ch.2 The Music of the Ainur, notes:
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Avalon
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Well, my real name is Gabrielle which means "woman of God" so my name and screename together mean red-jewelled woman of God. My name looks better with those nifty accent-mark thingies: Gabríellë.
This is fun ![]() Speaking of names, when I bought Unfinished Tales and found that Heren Istarion was in it I was astounded. "HerenIstarion from the Barrow Downs is in UT?"
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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My screen name and real name together?
Elianna: Star-gift, starry-gift, gift of the stars Elizabeth: Oath of God, consecrated to God. Maybe a starry gift consecrated to God?
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i found my avatar at http://wenham.menofthewest.net/fan.html
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<---dark elf?
mor-dark
edhel-elf I s'pose it means the dark elf, but I am not referring to =the Avari, I'm referring to my hair. ![]() |
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Im not sure what farmira means... but it is taken from Faramir, he is one of my favorite characters...
My real name is Leighan, which means in anglo-saxon and old english " meadow"
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Well, you can just ignore the title in bold
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Oops, I htought it was something to do with the little Ford !
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My screen name is inspired by my fascination of anything to do with the marine world.
My real name is Lewis, and I do not have a clue where that comes from or what it means, any ideas anyone? |
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Washington State
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Fingolfin was often known as the King of the North. He's my favorite Noldor King
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Actually...
It's interesting that I find this thread right after King of the North, because it isn't that different from my own. So, my name is Formendacil. Basically, this means North-Slayer, or North-victor, Conqueror of the North. It is in the good old tradition of Romendacil, Hyarmendacil, and Umbardacil (names taken by five of the kings of Gondor). It also seemed appropriate in light of the fact that I am a Canadian (hence, conquering the North is a big thing here...). Also, I like the sound of the other -dacils, and I wanted one that no one else was likely to have. So type "Formendacil" into Google. Last I checked, I'm the only one you come up with. ![]()
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Well most of you probably know that wilwarin is quenya for butterfly. my name is Vanessa and that means butterfly, so wilwarin is like a direct elven translation of my name. The sindarin word is gwilwileth but I didn't like it as much. The 538 is just my lucky number. So I like to think of it as 538 butterflies, wouldn't that be pretty.
![]() ~*Wilwa*~ (wilwa means "to flutter to and fro")
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Wight
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Michigan
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Neithan is the name that Turin took when he was with the outlaws, it is translated as "the wronged". I chose it just because all of my first choices were taken (Telchar for example). Had I thought of it I would have picked Narvi, I like that better but whatever. My real name is Corey which was possibly either derived from the Old Norse given name Kori (of unknown meaning), or else meant "ravine" in Gaelic.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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mine means someone who kills people for a price basically. I tried to use lots of other names, but they were all taken, so I just decided, why not? All my friends say that my name sounds like a boy, but I'm not, I'm a girl. I've mostly only seen girls here, though.
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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My name actually has nothing at all to do with Tolkien, although I've made amends for it elsewhere by using the handle Ancalime Erendis (Tar-Ancalime being the first reigning queen of Numenor and Erendis being her mother--and the two of them being pretty much the biggest femenazis on Arda).
Emni Windrunner came from a story I'm writing from a sub-created world (so it's kind of Tolkienesque). Her full name is Emnilia, and she earned the title Runner based on her fighting stance (she's a warrior's apprentice). Not very exciting, I'm afraid, but I liked the name enough to use it elsewhere...until I read Unfinished Tales , and then I found two names I liked better. Oh, well!
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Wight
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Emni Windrunner sounds pretty good. I mean, it is original as well, not jsut taken from Tolkien
So, welcome fellow warrior (ohtatyaro means warrior in quenya ![]()
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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I like Emni Windrunner too - it's a nice name.
(Ohtatyaro, you have a great signature ![]()
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Cheongju, Korea
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Halbarad, a kinsman of Aragorn: Hal- I don't know the meaning of, and it is an uncommon word stem, unlike ara-. -Barad is tower, and Halbarad was a tall man (but so were the rest of the Dunedain). At any rate, Halbarad was the standard bearer of Aragorn in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and (presumably, since he led the Dunedain out of the north into Rohan) a leader of the Dunedain in Aragorn's absence. His eulogy described him as being 'dour-handed', which to me says that he was a mighty warrior, or a stern captain. His answer of the 'summons' of Aragorn (Aragorn's wish, not spoken word- see 'Passing of the Grey Company' ) bespeaks his foresight and wisdom. A loss to the Dunedain, but of course I'm biased.
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Hal- means tall.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Makar is a Vala of War who was in the HoME, but never made it to the Sil. For a while he was pro-Melko, because evil is needed for conflict to take place.
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Elentari = Elbereth's Quenya name (Star Queen) And I've always loved Elbereth/Varda/Elentari. When I first read LotR I was intrigued and wanted to know who she was, and after the Silmarillion she became a favorite (one of many) Ohtatyaro- I though the Quenya word "Ohtar" meant "Warrior" (like the mention of Ohtar in LotR) Correct me if I'm wrong ![]() ![]()
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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Well my name obviously means "The Black Sword" I took it because Túrin is one of my favorite characters and I like the sound of Mormegil. However I wish I had capatilized the "m"
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Well, Turin is one of my favourite characters in ME, so I wanted to take one of his many names.
While in Nargothrond, he was called Adanedhel which is Man-Elf, because he had such resembalnce to an elf Also while he was in Nargothrond, he wouldn't reveal his true name to Finduilas, so she named him Thurin, which is The Secret. |
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Join Date: May 2006
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Letty stands for Dominic Toretto`s girlfriend`s name in "The Fast and the Furious". I`m hopelessly in love with Vin Diesel,that`s why i chose that nick. I`ve been Morganna and Arwen before,and I consider becoming Arwen again,but for now I`m Letty.
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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I've been away for quite a while, and coming back I'm mightily glad to see this thread still alive
Keep up folks ![]()
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## I think I have been here before
![]() I just happen to be rather keen on dragons - the more impressive, the better. This one is not just Glaurung; - he's Glaurung the Golden ![]() Last edited by Glaurung the Golden; 06-26-2006 at 04:07 PM. Reason: To avoid confusion with any other Glaurungs |
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Well, I could try and come up with a LOTR example, but I'm not so sure that that would fly around here, so here's the truth:
There's a song by The Clash called "Rock The Casbah" and, well, it's one of my favorite songs. I know y'all were dying to hear an deep, inside story (or weren't, as the case may be) but it really is that simple. Besides, it's my MySpace and back when I still used Xanga, it was my Xanga too. I can only remember so many usernames...
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