Thread: Naming Your Elf

I'd suggest some of the names on this thread. Reading back through the posts should provide you with many options. If you want something more specific, look at this link and pick out some words you like. We'll be happy to help you construct names.

http://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sinda...ict-sd-en.html

Someone on the general thread asked how to say "Strong Light". I'd suggest agalad or anaur, which would be the intensive prefix a- + calad (mutates to galad) for strong radience, or an- + aur for strong sunlight.

For militia, maybe use Barwaith, from Bar (home) + gwaith (host, regiment, people).

So after naming my elf, Linthalon, and having leveled him to 65, I just found out what his name meant: Lin: lake + Thala: Stalwart. So I assume that would be a Stalwart dweller of lakes?

Pond Hero would be a reasonable translation for Linthalion. No "dweller" meaning is implied.

Thanks to all that have taken the time to add to my tiny knowledge of Sindarin with this thread.

I have an Elf character called Habadhond... If I have translated correctly it should be: tall/long shoe/footware i.e boots
Since she is the Elven persona for my Main character Bootsy I tried to create a similar name.

This is where I find out I've actually called her "Stench of toe-cheese" isn't it? *grin*

How would you put the two words Beleg (strong) and Galad (light) together?

Originally Posted by Linvorn

How would you put the two words Beleg (strong) and Galad (light) together?

The simple answer is, you wouldn't. Beleg doesn't mean strong in the sense that you're implying. Agalad (Intense Radience) or Anaur (intense Sunlight) are more accurate ways of saying "Strong Light".

I always liked the name Mithmund. Grey Bull I'm almost certain it means. I have yet to try it though.

3 Elves.

Larnadriel, a minstrel

Eldhros, a rune-keeper

Golladhril, a warden

Just to double-check, would Maedhren make an acceptable Sindarin name? The random generator suggested it at character creation, and I liked the sound as well as the shout-out to Maedhros. My Sindarin is by no means notable, but I'm guessing it would be maed* plus adjectival suffix, so meaning 'beautiful one' or something of the sort? (And while at it, by what rule does the d- lenite to -dh in the compound? Is that a remant of Old/Northern Sindarin?)

Thanks.

I named all my Elven characters using LOTRO's random generator and basically have no knowledge of the Elven languages at all, so I'm at a loss to what exactly they mean in Sindarin or any other Elven language.

They are:

Mereithor, my Hunter (male)
Eldradhis, my Champion (female)
Fandethar, my Guardian (male)
Gonnellor, my Loremaster (male)

Originally Posted by EllisIstarnie

Just to double-check, would Maedhren make an acceptable Sindarin name? The random generator suggested it at character creation, and I liked the sound as well as the shout-out to Maedhros. My Sindarin is by no means notable, but I'm guessing it would be maed* plus adjectival suffix, so meaning 'beautiful one' or something of the sort? (And while at it, by what rule does the d- lenite to -dh in the compound? Is that a remant of Old/Northern Sindarin?)

Thanks.

A d becomes a dh in a compound if it follows a vowel (unchanged after consonants).

Maed = shapely or handy/skillful

The etymology of Maedhros is Maed+ros(s) (copper).
Moving onto the name you found, the closest I can find is Maed + perhaps 'rhenn' which is also glossed as 'rend', which means 'circular'.

My chars name is Jazlindreal..

I'd very much like an appropriate name for my soon to be Elf character. I plan on making a Guardian, so anything meaning something along the lines of Guardian or Sword-bearer or something similar would be great. I never got too much into the language myself, but I would still like to have my Guardian have a Sindarin name. I trust your judgement.

Originally Posted by Braxwald

I'd very much like an appropriate name for my soon to be Elf character. I plan on making a Guardian, so anything meaning something along the lines of Guardian or Sword-bearer or something similar would be great. I never got too much into the language myself, but I would still like to have my Guardian have a Sindarin name. I trust your judgement.

Well let's have a look...you didn't specify whether your character was going to be male or female btw, so I'll do both...off the top of my head, some ideas are:

Male:

Amathon/Amathron = Shieldman
Criston/Cristron = Swordman
Langon/Langron = Swordman (more like a cutlass)
Maethon = Fighter (warrior) - bit more Champion like I suppose
Thannor/Thandir = Shieldman (yip, two words for shield)

Female:

Amathel = Shieldwoman
Amathwen = Shieldmaiden
Cristeth = Sword woman
Cristwen = Sword maiden
Langeth = Sword woman
Langwen = Sword maiden
Maethes/Maithwen = Woman/maiden of battle
Thannel/Thangwen = Shieldwoman/maiden

The other option for 'sword' is the older word 'magol', giving you:

Maglon/Magoldir = Swordsman
Magleth/Magolwen = Swordswoman

There are other suffixes, so if you want something like 'son of' 'daughter of' etc, let me know and I could tell you those (saves me writing them *all* out here!)

Edit:
I had a look at making a compound name as you mentioned 'bearer' out of the verb 'to wield' - maetha-, but I'm not overly convinced with the results, it seems a little unwieldy to me:

Swordbearer (Male):
Cristvaethon/Cristvaethedir or
Langvaethon/Langvaethedir or
Maglavaethon/Maglavaethedir - given that names can be 'mutated' in several ways, you could also have this as Maglawaethon or Maglamaethon!

Sorry about not including the gender, he is a male. I say 'is', because I made him, and I ended up going with the name 'Ellomaethor'. It basically means 'Elven Warrior'. Thanks for the contributions, I might use them for another Elf Character.

Hey how would the I from a name from Nar (fire) and Cam (hand)? I think these are the right roots but are unsure. Thanks!

Originally Posted by TCyclone18

Hey how would the I from a name from Nar (fire) and Cam (hand)? I think these are the right roots but are unsure. Thanks!

Naur = Fire/Flame, Nâr actually means 'rat'.

A brief note on forming compounds in Sindarin/making names -
'au' becomes 'o'
the 'c' of cam will become a 'g'

It depends whether they're male or female, but here's some options for both genders anyway.

Male:
Norgamon = Fire/flame hand (male person)
Norgamdir = Fire/flame hand man
Norgamion = Son of a fire/flame hand

Female:
Norgameth = Fire/flame hand (female person)
Norgamil = Fire/flame hand woman
Norgamel = Fire/flame hand woman (just another female suffix)
Norgamwen = Fire/flame hand maiden

Norgamben = Fire/flame hand person (no gender)

Names can be put together either way round, so the other way round would be along the lines of:

Male:

Camnoron
Camnordir

etc.

Originally Posted by Xandarien_PoTI

Naur = Fire/Flame, Nâr actually means 'rat'.

A brief note on forming compounds in Sindarin/making names -
'au' becomes 'o'
the 'c' of cam will become a 'g'


etc.

Thanks for clearing that up for me haha. Also thanks for the names!

I've got two elves, a hunter and a lore-master. The hunter is "Twitcheetwitch", so clearly I didn't bother with a Tolkien-based name there! However, the lore master is Tarfeanor, and he's a jeweler. I drew on Feanor and the crafting of the Silmarils for some loose thematic inspiration, but that's about it.

This is a remarkable thread. I am impressed by the knowledge so many of you have. Below are my two elven characters and the names I gave them. I tried to come as close as I could to actual name meanings, but may have taken some liberties just to make them sound like names.


MY ELVEN CHARACTERS


Wyndelleu Farothomir



meaning: Blue wind. Hunter of the gem.
Language: Nandorin
Alternate names: Hwestelu Farothomir (Sindarin), Hwestaluinë Farothomîrë (Quenyan)
As a Nandor from Lothlorien, I wanted to make sure all three elven cultures that are influential in that land were represented. I completely made up Wyndelleu as a possible Nandorin name, but was amazed that the Sindarin and Quenyan version (if I got them right) completely coincidentally sounds somewhat similar.



Rindalagan Tinnufal



Meaning: Crowned Harper of the Twilight Shores
Language: Sindarin
Alternate names: Rinandaro Falundómë (Quenyan)
As an ancient Sindar minstrel from Linden, Rindaligan has been known by many names, but most men of this age know him simply as Taligan or Taligand (The Harper). I believe the first name is correct, but I may have taken some liberties with the last name.

There are approximately 30 known actual Nandorin words (had a search through my various dictionaries and word lists), and unfortunately 'blue' and 'wind' aren't among them. There's pale = lygn and cloud = spenna though.

I don't speak Quenyan at all (well, I know enough to read it, but I haven't studied it in any greater detail beyond that to be able to translate into it), but I can comment on the Sindarin .

Hwestelu

Hwest = more a puff, breeze, breath of air than actual wind. Wind as in 'my gosh it's windy' is gwaew. (Or for a storm of wind it's alagos). Course it all depends what meaning of wind you were looking for anyway!

Elu = Yip, pale blue.

Given your character's background (I've read many of your posts), you could have used the word luin, which is the Doriathrin Sindarin word for blue. (Doriathrin Sindarin is the pure Sindarin, the original Sindarin as it were).
The choice between Elu and Luin for blue in Sindarin ultimately comes down to whether you want the name to have Doriathrin origins, or Exilic-Sindarin origins. (When the Noldor came back from Valinor and were forced to adopt Sindarin after Quenyan was banned by Thingol, the language altered from its pure origins as it absorbed Quenyan influences, and became Exilic Sindarin).

Farathomir

The name Faramir itself means 'jewelled hunter' (probably, there is some debate on the subject), from Fara- (Faron) to hunt, and mir = jewel, so obviously you want a name that isn't identical to that!
This name seems to come from the word Faroth (a group of hunters, with negative connotations due to the -hoth suffix, it means a group of, but it's used on things like glamhoth = noisy horde (orcs)).
Incidentally 'of the' = en. As a sentence it would come out as Faron e-mîr. Struggling a bit with this one trying to compound it in my head without it coming out as Faramir tbh! (Though names can always be flipped round and retain the same meaning, so you could have Mîrfaron).

Rindalagan

Yip, definitely Crowned harper, it's even mutated properly!

Tinnufal

Tinnu = dusk, twilight but fal...I'm guessing you went for falas = wave beaten shore? There's no reason you couldn't have compounded those words as a name as Tinnufalas, it has the exact meaning you were after.
There are two other words for shore as well, which are esgar and faur.

Originally Posted by Twitcheetwitch

I've got two elves, a hunter and a lore-master. The hunter is "Twitcheetwitch", so clearly I didn't bother with a Tolkien-based name there! However, the lore master is Tarfeanor, and he's a jeweler. I drew on Feanor and the crafting of the Silmarils for some loose thematic inspiration, but that's about it.

Feanor itself means 'spirit of fire'. With the Tar- added to it, it makes it look vaguely Adunaic! (The rules of Numenor added the royal prefix Tar- to their names, for example Tar-Amandil, the third King of Numenor). Which would make your name Royal Spirit of Fire or King Spirit of Fire.

(When it comes to Sindarin the word stem tar- became the adjective tara = tough, stiff, so you could have your name mean 'Tough/Stiff spirit of fire' too).

Originally Posted by Xandarien_PoTI

Feanor itself means 'spirit of fire'. With the Tar- added to it, it makes it look vaguely Adunaic! (The rules of Numenor added the royal prefix Tar- to their names, for example Tar-Amandil, the third King of Numenor). Which would make your name Royal Spirit of Fire or King Spirit of Fire.

(When it comes to Sindarin the word stem tar- became the adjective tara = tough, stiff, so you could have your name mean 'Tough/Stiff spirit of fire' too).

I had the first option in mind when I created him (hence he has a circlet on his brow), but I like the second option quite a bit too. Thanks for pointing that out.

Originally Posted by Xandarien_PoTI

There are approximately 30 known actual Nandorin words (had a search through my various dictionaries and word lists), and unfortunately 'blue' and 'wind' aren't among them. There's pale = lygn and cloud = spenna though.

I don't speak Quenyan at all (well, I know enough to read it, but I haven't studied it in any greater detail beyond that to be able to translate into it), but I can comment on the Sindarin .

Hwestelu

Hwest = more a puff, breeze, breath of air than actual wind. Wind as in 'my gosh it's windy' is gwaew. (Or for a storm of wind it's alagos). Course it all depends what meaning of wind you were looking for anyway!

Elu = Yip, pale blue.

Given your character's background (I've read many of your posts), you could have used the word luin, which is the Doriathrin Sindarin word for blue. (Doriathrin Sindarin is the pure Sindarin, the original Sindarin as it were).
The choice between Elu and Luin for blue in Sindarin ultimately comes down to whether you want the name to have Doriathrin origins, or Exilic-Sindarin origins. (When the Noldor came back from Valinor and were forced to adopt Sindarin after Quenyan was banned by Thingol, the language altered from its pure origins as it absorbed Quenyan influences, and became Exilic Sindarin).

Farathomir

The name Faramir itself means 'jewelled hunter' (probably, there is some debate on the subject), from Fara- (Faron) to hunt, and mir = jewel, so obviously you want a name that isn't identical to that!
This name seems to come from the word Faroth (a group of hunters, with negative connotations due to the -hoth suffix, it means a group of, but it's used on things like glamhoth = noisy horde (orcs)).
Incidentally 'of the' = en. As a sentence it would come out as Faron e-mîr. Struggling a bit with this one trying to compound it in my head without it coming out as Faramir tbh! (Though names can always be flipped round and retain the same meaning, so you could have Mîrfaron).

Rindalagan

Yip, definitely Crowned harper, it's even mutated properly!

Tinnufal

Tinnu = dusk, twilight but fal...I'm guessing you went for falas = wave beaten shore? There's no reason you couldn't have compounded those words as a name as Tinnufalas, it has the exact meaning you were after.
There are two other words for shore as well, which are esgar and faur.

Thanks for the info. I'm glad I at least got close on these two. I am particularly happy that I mutated Rindalagan properly (even if I bastardized the last name lol). You're right about Tinnufal, of course. I totally shortened that simply because I thought if flowed better.

I'm very happy to learn how to say "of the" properly. I'll have to use that.

Hwestelu, completely by coincidence seemed to be pretty close to my totally made up Wyndelleu which I just pretended was Nandorin in origin. I am happy to see it makes a little sense. Farothomir was definitely an attempt to get a similar meaning without using the well-known Faramir name. Kind of a bummer it's got a negative connotation, but I'll just have to come up with a reason for that. Better to know and use it as a hook than to be ignorant of it I guess.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time.

I know some Sindarin and Quenya words, such as:

Cara-red
Luin-blue
Hir-lord
hareth-Lady
curu-skilled
ung-spider
dined-silent
las-leaf
lego-green
gorn-tree
galadr-light
celeb-silver
mith-grey
ril-gleam
ear-sea
mir-jewel
fir-mortal

When I started playing LotRO, I really could've cared less what their names meant, such as my first elves, Alhanaa and Maquesta. I soon realized that their names should have meanings. So, when I made the move to Landroval, I made and elf and named her Curuiel(skilled woman) Lomelin(dusk song). I'm glad I did that. I love sending random tells to people, like this:

Curuiel: Do you know what your name means?
Carahir: No
Curuiel: Oh, it means red lord.
Carahir: Coooooool. It was just a randomized name.


I tend to annoy people by bugging them about their completely non-elven name. Like a role-playing elf named Door. Door...seriously? DOOR. Jeez.



~ Tourmalien Bracegirdle

Knock Knock

Who's there?

Door.

Door who?

...

I just got a free horse by doing the festival postman quest thing--totally blew me away on that one!--and would like to give it a Sindarin name, to go with the background of my character.

The horse's standard name when I got it was "lonesome glory"

I have A Gateway to Sindarin that I use as a dictionary, but I have no background at all about speaking Sindarin or how to form phrases correctly, so would someone mind telling me the proper Sindarin for a name that means lonely glory? (seeing that I couldn't find a word for lonesome, but figure lonely is close enough)

According to the dictionary I have, "lonely" = "ereb" and "glory" is "algar" or "claur" (probably more likely, claur, right?)

thank you!

I am planning to name my elf either Orthored or Alorthornen (depending on which one is taken).

Originally Posted by AllySanders

I just got a free horse by doing the festival postman quest thing--totally blew me away on that one!--and would like to give it a Sindarin name, to go with the background of my character.

The horse's standard name when I got it was "lonesome glory"

I have A Gateway to Sindarin that I use as a dictionary, but I have no background at all about speaking Sindarin or how to form phrases correctly, so would someone mind telling me the proper Sindarin for a name that means lonely glory? (seeing that I couldn't find a word for lonesome, but figure lonely is close enough)

According to the dictionary I have, "lonely" = "ereb" and "glory" is "algar" or "claur" (probably more likely, claur, right?)

thank you!

A Gateway to Sindarin is a good starting point for learning Sindarin (it's where I started pretty much originally), however as a dictionary it's about 7 years out of date. Although this one is now also out of date a wee bit, it's still an excellent resource
http://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sinda...ict-sd-en.html


Okay, onto the name of the horse!
Ereb = Yip it means lonely, isolated
You also have Erui = Alone, single and the prefix Er- = alone, one, but I think Erui would be more appropriate.
Aglar would be the more normal word, Claur is glossed as 'poetical', so as it's a name and not a piece of text it's really down to personal preference.

Clorereb
Ereblor
Erebaglar
Aglarereb

Making compounds like this have a lot of different rules based off mutations, but the only thing to be aware of in this case is that an 'au' in a word becomes an 'o' in a compound. I've put them all both ways round as names can be put together either way (whichever sounds nicest to you basically). (Oh and the 'c' of claur becomes a 'g' due to mutation and then does a disappearing act in the second one).

Edit - Changed Erebglor to Ereblor as it was niggling me there was something wrong with it!

Originally Posted by The_V

I am planning to name my elf either Orthored or Alorthornen (depending on which one is taken).

Can I ask what you meant these names to mean? When I look at the first one I see 'To raise mountain' and the second one possibly 'Not raising tree water' or 'Not raising eagle water' (Al- Doriathrin negative suffix, Orth- verb to raise, and then either Orn = tree, nen = water or thoron = eagle and nen = water).

Just cause I am curious,

Aelinmir = Lake Jewel

Language: Sindarin

Very young half-elf born to a woman of Esgroth and a unknown Moriquendi father. I have not learned much if any of the Elvish languages but use the dictionary of Tolkien's languages and what is in the Silmarillion

Aelin is the plural of ael, so Aelinmir actually says 'Lakes jewel' Also there's no suffix on the end, so it's 'gender non-specific', if you want to make it female you could have:

Aelwíreth = Lake jewel (female suffix)
Aelwírel = Lake jewel (2nd female suffix)
Aelwíril = Lake jewel (3rd female suffix)
Aelwírdes = Lake jewel (young woman)

or possibly

Aelwírneth = Lake jewel (young woman not yet an adult)

The m becomes an w as it is following a word that ends in an l.

Names are a lot freer with their mutations than anything else, so the other option is to make mîr into vîr and have Aelvíreth etc.

I am wanting a Sindarin name that sounds similar to the English name "Christopher". The closest I could get was using the Sindarin terms "Crist" and "Far". My question is, what would be the proper combination of these two terms? Is Cristfar correct?

Another question is on creating a name that means "first son". Is Vinuion a correct way to do this?

A third question I have is in trying to get a Sindarin name that sounds similiar to Alexandria. The closest I could get here was using the terms "Aelin" and "tiria" Is "Aelintiria" a correct combination for these two terms, and exactly what could I say the meaning was (assuming my sources are correct in that Aelin is plural for lake or pool and Tiria is a verb meaning watch, gaze, or look toward?)

Finally, I wanted a kinship named "the company of the seven", with the seven being a group of men. Would "Gwaith Odogath" be correct?


Thanks alot! I've got the Gateway to Sindarin book, but I'm afraid all the technical wording that goes along with learning the language (terms like asperated, permutations, etc) set my head to spinning and makes little sense to me, and I haven't learned the ins and outs of the Sindarin language to know how to properly construct words and phrases myself. What can I say? I'm a math major, not a linguist!

Originally Posted by AllySanders

I am wanting a Sindarin name that sounds similar to the English name "Christopher". The closest I could get was using the Sindarin terms "Crist" and "Far". My question is, what would be the proper combination of these two terms? Is Cristfar correct?

Another question is on creating a name that means "first son". Is Vinuion a correct way to do this?

A third question I have is in trying to get a Sindarin name that sounds similiar to Alexandria. The closest I could get here was using the terms "Aelin" and "tiria" Is "Aelintiria" a correct combination for these two terms, and exactly what could I say the meaning was (assuming my sources are correct in that Aelin is plural for lake or pool and Tiria is a verb meaning watch, gaze, or look toward?)

Finally, I wanted a kinship named "the company of the seven", with the seven being a group of men. Would "Gwaith Odogath" be correct?


Thanks alot! I've got the Gateway to Sindarin book, but I'm afraid all the technical wording that goes along with learning the language (terms like asperated, permutations, etc) set my head to spinning and makes little sense to me, and I haven't learned the ins and outs of the Sindarin language to know how to properly construct words and phrases myself. What can I say? I'm a math major, not a linguist!

Okay...in order!

1) I've been asked to 'Sindarinise' some modern names before; as long as you're aware it will essentially be nonsense and won't mean anything, it'll just look vaguely 'Elven'?

The Quenyan for Christ is Hristo, which taken back into Sindarin is Rhiston or Rhist, but I think a different tack might be better tbh, I'll just do the name as a whole rather than its constituent parts, and just do the sound, which would come out as:

Cristofur

i = this is the problem. An i in Sindarin is an ee, so it'll be pronounced differently.
ur = this is the diphthong in 'four', but the 'er' of Christopher doesn't exist in Sindarin, so it's as close as you're going to get.

If you want the meaning of Christopher translated into Sindarin and turned into a name it would come out as:
Rhissgyll = literally, 'Bearer of Christ'. (Rhist+cyll, the -st becomes an -ss before a c).

2) First son.

Minui+ion = Minuion (remove the repeated vowel). Don't need to mutate the first letter of the first element in a name.

3) I'd prefer to use the gerund of the verb, tiriad = watching. Tiria- is either an incomplete form, or the third person present = he/she/it watches. Sindarin also uses the gerund to mean the noun.
Yes, aelin = pools, so we have:

Aelindiriad = (t- becomes a d-)

4) To me, 'Gwaith odogath' reads as 'All of the seven peoples', -ath makes it 'all of the', so 'all of the seven(s)'.

Company of the seven = Gwaith-en-odog
Gwaith = People
en = of the
odog = seven

Unfortunately (or not - all things considered), I named my elves many years ago and didn't have any thought on the meaning of the names.
I am however curious as to any possible meaning to them.
If some expert would like to indulge me, I would appreciate.

Names of my elves:
Lucanthanas
Hendalin
Lorinor
Lenwin (named Lenwing in LOTRO because Lenwin was taken - supposedly)
Tenyth

Thank you.

Originally Posted by Lucanthanas

Unfortunately (or not - all things considered), I named my elves many years ago and didn't have any thought on the meaning of the names.
I am however curious as to any possible meaning to them.
If some expert would like to indulge me, I would appreciate.

Names of my elves:
Lucanthanas
Hendalin
Lorinor
Lenwin (named Lenwing in LOTRO because Lenwin was taken - supposedly)
Tenyth

Thank you.

Lucanthanas:

Well there's Lucando = debtor, one who trespasses in Quenya, or looking at Sindarin - Lû = time, can = could be 'bold' or the number four in a compound, and thanas is almost thannas, which means truth.

Hendalin:

Hên = child or hen = eye
tâl = foot or talan = tree-house (stretching it a bit here)

Lorinor:

-or = genderless name suffix, 'doer'
There's lor- = 'to slumber' in Quenya (would be mixing the languages though) or perhaps at a push lorn = quiet water in Sindarin.

Lenwin:

Lenn became Lend = journey (not Lend(2) = sweet) and the second element could be -
Gwîn = either 'wine, grapevine' or the plural of 'new' (the 'g' disappears with lenition).
This is actually the name closest to some form of Elvish so far

Tenyth:

Not really a lot I can do with this one, ten in Sindarin is an object pronoun, or in Quenya it could be 'to hear' or 'to go as far as', or again, a pronoun.
Nyth or yth would look like it would want to be a plural of noth or oth. Noth exists as part of words meaning 'family', and that's about it I'm afraid!

Hi. I created my first elf almost 5 years ago and named her Whisperwolf. I don't think there is anything elvish about this LM's name. My second was Terebinth the elf hunter. I named him that because it is a tree. Once again, I doubt it is elvish.
Third was Tinuweth, created from the random Sindarin syllables in the character creation page. Don't know if its elvish, but I liked the name. She is a rk.

If anyone can squeak elvish meanings from those names, I would be glad.

Thank you for the reply!

The Council of Elrond http://www.councilofelrond.com/ has a really good name list converting modern names into Sindarin (though I liked the list a whole lot better before they updated; it was so much easier to search!)


But what I'm trying to do is get something close to the sound of the name, and not necessarily the actual name or its actual meaning. Which was why I was using Crist and Far to try to make "Christopher". What I'm not sure about is if Cristfar would be a correct combination. I know that "Crist" means sword or cleaver, and "Far" means sufficient, so I was assuming the combination could be taken to mean "sufficient sword" or "sword sufficient". I was just wondering how you could combine those two words to form a name, and if I could get away with Cristfar instead of Farcrist

As for Aelintiria, I struggle with combining nouns and adjectives, and now Tolkien throws a verb in there! So I wasn't sure if you could combine those two words like that.

Hisweloke's dictionary (as referenced in an earlier reply) says vin is a soft mutation of min, which means first. When would vin be used?

And thanks for the information for the kinship name! I like what you came up with better, except my roommate jumped the gun on me and already formed it and named it Gwaith Ogodath! I'm giving serious thought to disbanding it and starting over, though

Thanks again!

At least the other names in this little fraternity of the seven aren't Sindarin--though that's even worse, because I have to come up with 2 that are Old English that sounds like Nathan and Josiah and a Middle English one that sounds like JD! I think I've gotten fairly close on them--enough to satisfy myself, anyway.

The last 2 members of this little group come from south Gondor around Dol Amroth, and knowing that Anduniac names are still prevalent down there (Imrahil and Azrahil being two), I cheated and used Anduniac names for them


Of course, when it comes to names, the rules don't always seem to apply--I've looked at enough baby names meaning books to know that! Its amazing how many different ways you can spell something! It's almost like our ancestors just made something up and then made up a meaning for it.......

So keeping that in mind, perhaps even if Aelintiria wouldn't be the proper way to combine those words, since I'm using it for a name, I suppose it could still be possible as a name with a general idea of meaning "gazing pool".....



Thanks again!

Originally Posted by Xandarien_PoTI

Okay...in order!

1) I've been asked to 'Sindarinise' some modern names before; as long as you're aware it will essentially be nonsense and won't mean anything, it'll just look vaguely 'Elven'?

The Quenyan for Christ is Hristo, which taken back into Sindarin is Rhiston or Rhist, but I think a different tack might be better tbh, I'll just do the name as a whole rather than its constituent parts, and just do the sound, which would come out as:

Cristofur

i = this is the problem. An i in Sindarin is an ee, so it'll be pronounced differently.
ur = this is the diphthong in 'four', but the 'er' of Christopher doesn't exist in Sindarin, so it's as close as you're going to get.

If you want the meaning of Christopher translated into Sindarin and turned into a name it would come out as:
Rhissgyll = literally, 'Bearer of Christ'. (Rhist+cyll, the -st becomes an -ss before a c).

2) First son.

Minui+ion = Minuion (remove the repeated vowel). Don't need to mutate the first letter of the first element in a name.

3) I'd prefer to use the gerund of the verb, tiriad = watching. Tiria- is either an incomplete form, or the third person present = he/she/it watches. Sindarin also uses the gerund to mean the noun.
Yes, aelin = pools, so we have:

Aelindiriad = (t- becomes a d-)

4) To me, 'Gwaith odogath' reads as 'All of the seven peoples', -ath makes it 'all of the', so 'all of the seven(s)'.

Company of the seven = Gwaith-en-odog
Gwaith = People
en = of the
odog = seven

Originally Posted by Brodrick

Hi. I created my first elf almost 5 years ago and named her Whisperwolf. I don't think there is anything elvish about this LM's name. My second was Terebinth the elf hunter. I named him that because it is a tree. Once again, I doubt it is elvish.
Third was Tinuweth, created from the random Sindarin syllables in the character creation page. Don't know if its elvish, but I liked the name. She is a rk.

If anyone can squeak elvish meanings from those names, I would be glad.

Tinu = Spark or a small star
-weth could come from Gweth = (incorrect/irregular) plural of Gwath = Shadow
Or simply -eth, the female suffix, put together to sound nice, which would make a nice name actually.