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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 2712340" data-attributes="member: 30001">I think it's part of the genius of Tolkien that many folks have so deeply internalized the issues of language within their fantasy.  IMO there's nothing wrong with someone named "Slayer" except that it sounds strange because we're not used to descriptive names in English, although we take such things for granted if the name were Elvish for "Slayer".  Evilyn's parents were probably not trying to be clever so much as give their daughter a name that would be recognized by evil deities so that she would get special consideration by them.  They took the English word for Evil and combined it with a common feminine ending.  Had they done the same thing in Orcish it wouldn't look as weird.</blockquote>