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| Story Timeline by Larner | 4 Review(s) |
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| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 5/16/2007 |
| It's awfully hard to come up with "proper" hobbit names. For male first names I rely so much on Kate Monk's Onomasticon! (Nothing like drawing on the same historical sources as JRRT, especially when someone else has gone to the trouble of compiling them, LOL!) But you've come up with some *very* good ones--I've always liked "Brendilac" and I quite like "Beligard". "Morigrin" is very good as well. They fit quite properly into the Brandybuck or Took naming conventions. And it's fun to see all those hobbit lasses with exotic flower names! I can't look at a garden catalogue without thinking "Hmm...that would make an excellent hobbit lass name!" LOL! But I love some of the ones you chose, like "Cyclamen" and "Gloxinia". Last names are a little harder, and I generally stick with canon ones, but I must say, I love some of the ones you've coined: "Broadloam" is really good, and I *love* "Gravelly". I've always been curious, though, as to why you only use one "L" in "Tunnely"? Author Reply: I have fun trying to think up the Hobbit names, and I've always enjoyed Brendi's name as well. And it's fun to slip in a few nods to some of my other favorite books and authors with Tumnus, Albus, and Jonkenton when I think I can get away with it. Am working on the story in which Trillium and Gloxinia appear--one day it will get posted, but I have SO MANY BLASTED nuzguls and plotbunnies attacking me lately! It's getting a bit overwhelming! Heh! As for Tunnely--I dunno--it just seemed to fit--or maybe my spellchecker liked it better, as it does with "Travelers." Although I think Tunnely and Gravelly are listed in FOTR where its noted the Bree Hobbits, as happened with Men, tended to have herbal names, although there were a few common ones seen in the Shire as well. AS for Broadloam--originally I'd planned on Broadfields, but as I was writing it kept turning into Broadloam, much as Tolkien found that Trotter the Hobbit kept morphing into a Man as he wrote. It gets to the point that you realize the story is right about what it does to what you thought were your own characters or names. I'm SO glad we ended up with Frodo Baggins instead of Bingo Bolger-Baggins, you know, and Strider the Ranger who's really Aragorn son of Arathorh rather than Trotter the runaway Peregrin. | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 5/7/2007 |
| *groans* Honestly, I *knew* you have quite a cast of characters, but I was not aware it was *that* bad! Most of the repeatedly mentioned I know, of course, but only now, seeing the long list, I realised how many more you have randomly mentioned I'd not truly noticed. It was certainly hard work to find all these names and make this list - thank you so very much! It will prove very useful for all, of that I am certain. Author Reply: And I haven't gotten out of the Shire as yet, have I? I had this list completed several months ago, just before the Dell decided to self-destruct, so I've been having to reconstruct the list again from scratch. It's been a pain, believe me. Thank you for helping! | |
| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 5/7/2007 |
| Wow! I would be so lost. Maybe I should just start making my own list right now, before I get a whole tapestry. (If I ever get one--I do wonder.) How was this originally formatted? I couldn't get it to read right...but of course it might be a Jaws quirk--again. Wouldn't surprise me. I was trying to write an e-mail the other night and it was just randomly reading words that weren't even there! Hmm. A little on the creepy side, if you ask me. Never a dull moment. God bless, Galadriel Author Reply: This is, unfortunately, in a columnar format, so you are likely to get a name followed by part of a description followed by a number of letters indicating which story or collection the name is found within. Sorry about that, but when I tried putting it into a linear format it was even more difficult to understand, I'm afraid. And JAWS is reading random words just cuz? Oh, how funny! | |
| cookiefleck | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 5/7/2007 |
| How anyone could go through life with the name of "Bracegirdle" is beyond me. ;o) J.R.R. must have had a good laugh over that one. Author Reply: Amen! Or Longbottom! A name borrowed by Rowling and given to poor Neville.... | |