Who knows someone named after a character from Lord of the Rings?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

or any other work of literature with made up names. I used to work with a girl called Arwen.

[DrWeird]

1. You mean besides all the biblical names, I assume? nt

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[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Yeah. Someone with a name that was specifically made up in fiction

(other than the bible, of course)
and no, Wendy doesn't count.

[HEyHEY]

2. I know a guy named Bilbo

No I don't

[Zero Gravitas]

3. My boss

Darth Sauron.

[MuseRider]

5. Cracking me up here!

I know a woman named Galadriel (is that how you spell that?). She works for the guy who cuts my hair. I named a parakeet that once but I never knew anyone named that before her.

[beyurslf]

10. Our parrot was named Bohemian Rhapsody when I was a kid

yeah yeah... my parents were 70's hippies

[doubleplusgood]

6. motel manager named "Frodo"

...in Stinson Beach (N. Cal) where I stayed earlier this year

[On the Road]

7. What About the Head of the Chechen Rebels?

It figures that when a real personal named "Aslan" shows up, he'd be a violent Muslim revolutionary. Just goes to show.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. Man, that's a classic!

[Bridget Burke]

9. You've got the wrong Inkling

Aslan is from the Narnia books by C. S. Lewis.

Derivation, from a quick check, could be Persian or from the Turkic languages. Of course, it means "lion" & is a pretty fine name.

[Xithras]

11. I wanted to name my son Frodo...

...but for some reason my wife objected :shrug:

I have a co-worker who named his son Ender, which IMO is a pretty cool name. Based in fantasy but not too "wierd".

[velocity]

14. So you named him

Bilbo :)

[roguevalley]

12. I know an Arwen too.

[roguevalley]

13. There's a Greek restaurant here named Froso. Everyone calls it

Frodo's.

Some dimwit celebrity just named their new baby Banjo.

HONESTLY! :-D

[Coventina]

15. If I have a son he's going to be named "Glorfindel"

:D

[SheilaT]

16. You're joking

aren't you?

Don't give a kid a name that always needs explaining or makes the kid an object of teasing, or has a spelling that is odd or doesn't quite match the pronunciation.

Please.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. You know it's not that bad. I have a really obscure first name,

I mean really obscure, and I can deal with it.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

27. Come on now..

What is it? Share!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. Nairn Lindsay Clark

Obscure first name, Check. Girly middle name, check. First name as last name. Check.

[lazarus]

34. my daughter's godfather

is named Beverley. So we gave her Beverly as a middle name. He said nobody would ever name their son after him, so he'd settle for a daughter.

[DrWeird]

18. Yes! I agree!

Nonconformity is a form of abuse!

[southpaw72]

19. when i was a kid

my dad had a dog named Gimli. beautiful english setter.

[geniph]

20. I know about a zillion people who named their boats

after LOTR characters and places. Got to the point where if I saw one more boat called Shadowfax, I was gonna puke, and I am an LOTR devotee.

Your plastic stinkpot does not look like Gandalf's great stallion!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. LOL!

[ronzo]

22. Ah, nephew Smeegle....

strange kid.

[Westegg]

23. Peregrine Took

Steve Peregrine Took was a member of the '60s/'70s rock band T. Rex. He died in 1980.

[Westegg]

24. Strider

...Was the name Robert Plant, lead singer of Led Zeppelin, gave to his dog, circa 1970. He even wrote a song about this dog, called "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp," from the album "Led Zeppelin III." In concert (but not on the album version) he typically shouted out "Strider!!" at the end of the song.

[Missy Vixen]

25. We do

His name is Samwise, her name is Yasmine.

Julie

[LanternWaste]

26. Here ya go...

One of my best friends from high school named his son after his first Dungeon and Dragons character. It's not from LotR, but I think D&D is close enough in this context <g>.

[Lisa]

28. one of my students last year was named "Galadriel"

She's in the right age group to have been born when the book became very popular, in the 1970s ...

[Breezy du Nord]

29. My parents got my name from Star Trek

It's not made up, i don't think, but they got "Briana" from "Brenna," or something like that. It used to entertain me to no end, even though I can't stand Star Trek. :P

[grannylib]

30. I know a few named after Shakespeare characters, or mythological

ones...
I know several Ariels, a Portia, a Paris (long before the Hilton one!) and two Minervas.

[Maeve]

32. Two of my kids have MiddleEarth middle names

Aragorn and Arwen.

[bif]

33. I have a nephew named Bilbo

n/t

[eyesroll]

35. I went to junior high with a Galadriel (nickname Gali)

and to college with an Arwen. (I heard Arwen later became a rabbi.)