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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 129152" data-attributes="member: 2205">Quick update...OK, I've had family in town this weekend, so sitting down for the hour or so it would take me to start up a log of our adventures has been difficult, I thought I'd just make a quick update on the characters.Since names and languages were so important to Tolkien himself, we figured that we better be serious about the names we picked for the characters.Hannar is a dwarf name taken from the "Catalogue of Dwarves" in the Elder Edda.  Since Tolkien took every other dwarvish name (with the exception of the Petty Dwarves) from that catalogue, it seemed to be straight from the horse's mouth.Fosco Cotman is a conglomerate of two names from the hobbit family trees: Fosco is a Baggins name, while Cotman is the name that later evolved into Cotton and figures in the Gamgee family tree.Halbarad is the name of the ranger who led the company who met Aragorn right before he went to the paths of the dead.  For a "proto-ranger" that seemed like an appropriate name.Duiniel is a variation of a name found in the catalogue of allies who comes marching into Minas Tirith to be cheered on by Pippin and Birgil.  There, the name is Duinhir.  The player simply removed the -hir and attached -iel, which is a feminine name ending common in Sindarin.  Later, I looked up the word elements in the wordlist in The Silmarillion and found that Duin was '(long) river' and hir was lord.  So Duinhir was the river-lord, and Duiniel is, loosely translated, the river-maiden.  I told the player, and she may change the background slightly and give her the swim skill, saying that she often frolicked in the river at Rivendell, thus earning her name.When I come back next, the first log will commence!</blockquote>

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