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i was just wondering how some of you came up with your character names.

my character Morris Mantle, Morris is just a cool name and i wanted a last name that started with an M as well so it would be easy to remember. As for the name Leumas, well take a wild guess heh.

by the way, that looks funny

leumas wrote:i was just wondering how some of you came up with your character names.

my character Morris Mantle, Morris is just a cool name and i wanted a last name that started with an M as well so it would be easy to remember. As for the name Leumas, well take a wild guess heh.

by the way, that looks funny

just wanted to say hello Samuel bye now

This might help a few people creating a name.
just add your real name and then search.
Out comes the Elvish translation.
See below
http://www.chriswetherell.com/elf/Default.asp

this also works for Hobbit names
URL below
http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/

Have fun.

My Hobbit name: Posco Sandybanks of Frogmorton
My Elvish name:Tathar Telemnar

Strangely enough, my Real Life name means Elf In welsh

Your Welsh? Welsh people are so cool! I love the accent!

My genes are A BIG mix. Welsh, English, German and French. 50% Welsh, 12.5% English, 25% German and 12.5% French. My Mother is Welsh, My grandfather is English/French, and my grandmother is German.

Hmm...my hobbit name would be Bulbo Gamwich of the Bree Gamwiches...

My elven name would be Elrond Táralóm ...

Honestly said, I would normlly never have come up with these names..

*smiles*
My elven name would be: Maglor Táralóm
My hobbit name: Fosco Gamwich of the Bree Gamwiches

Bombor wrote:This might help a few people creating a name.
just add your real name and then search.
Out comes the Elvish translation.
See below
http://www.chriswetherell.com/elf/Default.asp

this also works for Hobbit names
URL below
http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/

Have fun.

Yeah, thats just great, but I posted these URLs a while ago, if you'd care to use the search function.

Uhm... Where did you get Leumas? Llamas? I got Paul Laffing because Paul is a biblical name and Laffing is an old english name.

My name, Serpardum, was made up as all my char names.

I simply picked some letters, SPDM and tried to make a good sounding name out of it with different vowels. Some like Sapedium, Sipadum, til I came up with Serpardum.

Lets take some letters (looks around the page) M V N D. MVND.

Maevened.
Mivinud
Maervend
Maervund.
Movenud
Movined

You get the idea. Eventually one will come out as a good sounding name for whatever type of character you are creating.

It just takes some gray matter.

another more simple solution, would be just to spell your real name backwards (something i used for a prior char).

eg.
Martin = Nitram
Silvia = Aivlis Silva

I have my own languages that I use..Great for coming up with fantasy names 'cuz they're never taken. I have a cool elven name:
Nienna Helyanwë

And my hobbit name's pretty cool too:
Dimple Foxburr of Loamsdown

It helps if you have The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkein. At least, in the one I have, it has a partial dictionary in the back of elvish and some dwarvish. There are prefixes/roots/suffixes. From those, I just try different names until I find one that expresses the character I want and sounds nice.

Oh-and then you can check the index of all the character names (in the book) to make sure it isn't already a named used.

Backward? Hmm.. not a bad name...
Llib Setag

My elven name is Elladan Felagund.

accually turning your name backwards often is a good name, depending on race of course.

No, not always...I tried mine....loads of gibberish and a foolish name...

I just picked random words and translated them into French. At first I wanted to name my character "Serin", which means canary... Then when that name was already taken I tried thinking of other random words that sounded cool in French. I thought about ghost, which would be Spectre, which doesn't sound very acceptable, and a few other words that I didn't like the translations of. Then I thought about evil. You get the word Malin, and if you make it feminine (which is where I get, if evil were a girl...) it would be Malinne. I thought that sounded like a casual enough name, and well, yeah.

My elvin name is Lúthien Falassion , and my hobbit name amuses me... Rosie-Posie Bleecker-Baggins of Fair Downs (phew).

Hmm... My name backwards... Iresi Aerdna

And in Pig-Latin: Ndreaaay Serisay

Hmm...Turn Rynt backward and get Tnyr. Or T'nyr. Rynt T'nyr. Hmm. I dunno.

Don't know how I come up with names... Well, the surname "Eles" was from a character I made a while ago for another story. First thought about recycling the entire name, but then I decided make up a new first name.

But even when I originally made it up, I had nothing peticular in mind. Just made up some word which sounded like a name. And that isn't to difficult. Most senseful letter combinations can be used as names somehow.

Names jump into your mind when you don't need them, they stay away from it when you need them.
Just note them down when you don't need them for the next situation when you do need them...

Well, my elvish name would be Anaranë Amandil... Hobbit: Dolly Boggy-Hillocks

Here comes another hint: Read the bible or the edda or something like this (Tolkien did this either to find the names for some main characters ->Gandalf)! There are so many way cool names inside, change some letters and you got a name that does not sound like Elrand Legulas or Balbo Brindybock. Or simply take some syllables and put them together until you find a unique name. Or use this generator:

http://ebon.pyorre.net/

(The everchanging book of names)

Belegi Zahar is a quiet simple name: Beleg is a guy from the bible (Tolkien also uses this name in the Silmarillion) and Zahar, well that you can find out yourself. Actually it´s a khuzdulian word.

Yours Belegi

My name Is Nessa Eärfalas in Elvish

and Freo's is: Eärwen Ancalímon