My 7 yr old son and I have been partaking in a marathon of the LotR trilogy. While we were watching I started noticing all the names and actually beginning to love some of them. So I thought I would post and see if anyone would think of naming their child a name from the LotR saga. My favorites are below:
Boys:
[name]Frodo[/name] - while in the womb we actually called my son this name before we knew he was a boy!
[name]Peregrin[/name] - nn [name]Pip[/name] or [name]Pippin[/name]
Gandalf
Aragorn - favorite of mine
Strider/Stryder
Legolas
Gimli
Tolkien - favorite of mine
Girls:
[name]Arwen[/name] - favorite of mine
Lorien
[name]Eowyn[/name]/Aeowyn - favorite of mine, pronounced with strong A sound
Rivendell
Galadriel
I don’t know how many times I’ve consider these names and others from my favorite book series. (LOTR) But I’ve always thought they would probably be forever off limits.
I honestly think if they were paired with another great name it would balance out their uniqueness if that makes sense. If my hubby and I have another one and it is a boy I am seriously thinking about using [name]Kristopher[/name] Tolkien or [name]Kristopher[/name] Aragorn and if it is a girl [name]Lillie[/name] [name]Arwen[/name] or Aeowynn [name]Lillie[/name].
I’ve never considered the names myself, but I have thought about the names and how a lot of them are creative. I think a few could potentially be used. Some are already listed on Name [name]Berry[/name].
I think [name]Peregrin[/name] and [name]Merry[/name] are the most accesible. Samwise is also nice. I can see [name]Arwen[/name] and Stryder as real kids, too. The other ones seem a bit too much.
I really like Aragorn, Stryder, [name]Arwen[/name], and Rivendell. I also think [name]Rohan[/name], which is a place name from LOTR, would make a cool name. I don’t think I’d have the courage to use them, but I think they’re interesting.
If its a help, there are lots of lovely Welsh names that Tolkien used as inspiration for his characters. Some similar names to [name]Arwen[/name] for example are Adwen, [name]Aeronwen[/name], [name]Arianwyn[/name], & Aelwen.
[name]Ah[/name] I love the LOTR names!
We are going to use at least one (along with some other fantasy names!) for our children. The books are an even better source for names than the movies (many characters aren’t in the movies) that might be less obvious but still just as unique.
My ex-fiance and I actually planned to name our first son Strider after the LOTR series, but that was the only name I would agree to (he tried to persuade me to use Boromir and Samwise, but I was having none of that).
Now, I really like [name]Peregrine[/name], [name]Rohan[/name], and Theodred (the king of [name]Rohan[/name]) for boys, and I’ve always liked [name]Eowyn[/name] for a girl. Also thought about [name]Meredith[/name] “[name]Merry[/name]”. In general, Tolkien had some really nice choices!
And just for fun, I’ll throw in that I met a little BOY named [name]Arwen[/name] once! Somebody wasn’t paying attention to the movie!
Before the LOTRs movies came out, I had only heard of Galadriel once, and her parents were big Tolkein fans. But it was pronounced with a long a, like in glade, not short a like in apple. I bet nowadays nobody pronounce her name right anymore since the movies prounce it differently.
I think Arwen and Peregrin are easily recognizable as LOTR but also really usable as first names. My all-time favorite Tolkien name to actually name a child, though, is Elanor. I love the meaning, “star-sun,” and that it is a flower name (the little golden star-shaped flower that grows in Lorien), and I like that the Tolkien connection is a little more subtle than it is with, say, Eowyn (which I love but would never use for that reason). I’d use Elanor as a first name in a heartbeat. I also really like Elenna, an elvish word meaning “starwards,” as a subtle Tolkien-fan option.
For middle names, I love Elessar (swoon), Samwise, Lalaith, Lorien, Miriel, Rohan, Luthien, Bard, Faramir (swoon again), Primrose, and Beren.
As far as I know the name is pronounced correctly in the film.
"Sindarin has six vowels, a, e, i, o, u and y, the last of which corresponds to [name_m]German[/name_m] ü or [name_m]French[/name_m] u as in [name_f]Lune[/name_f] (pronounce ee as in English see with rounded lips as when you pronounce oo, and you’ve got it). [name_m]Long[/name_m] vowels are marked with an accent (á, é etc.), but in the case of stressed monosyllables the vowels tended to become especially long and are marked with a circumflex: â, ê etc. In HTML one unfortunately cannot place a circumflex above the vowel y. To avoid ugly spellings like my^l (“gulls”, WJ:418), we here use an accent instead (the relevant words occurring in this article are býr, thýn, fýr, rýn, mrýg, mýl, 'lýg and hýn - ideally these should have had a circumflex instead). This is not very critical: In Tengwar writing, no distinction is made between long and super-long vowels; the use of circumflexes instead of accents in monosyllables is merely an extra complication Tolkien introduced in his [name_m]Roman[/name_m] orthography for Sindarin (evidently to make it abundantly clear how the words are to be pronounced). „
I think a few could potentially be used. Some are already listed on Name [name]Berry[/name].