Character Names

[Witch-king of Angmar]

THE ADMINISTRATOR RULES ON THIS MATTER:

1. No "Fred" or modern day names unless they fit into Tolkien's world (ie, Hilda would fit for Rohirrim or Northmen)
2. No made up strange names, ie, Icknack Rickbod, or other oddities (I just made this up off the top of my head)
3. No names such as "Bloodred Vampire Slayer," "Fang Girl," "Raven Shadowbane," "Jade Wolfclaw." "True Axe the Red-headed Dwarf" could possibly work. Titles are acceptable, not strange tavern rpg-ish sounding names.

WHAT IS ACCEPTED:

Names in Tolkien's languages:

1. Sindarin
2. Quenya
3. Adunaic
4. Black Speech (the fan-created dialects are perfectly fine to use)

OTHER NAMES:

1. Old English for Rohirrim and other Northmen
2. Old Norse for Dwarves and Northmen
3. Mid-eastern names for Haradrim and Khandian. These could be ancient, taken from Sumerian, Akkadian, or modern, taken from Persian or Arabic. The rule here is no names that have modern day religious significance to any faith, such as Ibraim.
4. Rhun, Dunland - Probably old Gothic, old Germanic type names. Old Norse could work, too. The rule is to stick with something European.

A NOTE UPON SPECIAL SYMBOLS
Some languages use special symbols that not all computers can read, especially Old English and Old Norse. If you pick a name like Æþelstan, the "þ" is a special letter called "thorn" and it can be replaced with a "th." So the name would read Æthelstan. Though most computers can see the "Æ" symbol, Tolkien probably would have simplified this name by writing it "Athelstan" or "Ethelstan." The symbol "ð" is also translated as "th." For example, áðum (Old English, brother-in-law) can be written áthum.

LANGUAGES OF TOLKIEN'S WORLD

Sindarin Names at Council of Elrond
Translations of common names into Sindarin
www.councilofelrond.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Semantics&file=index&options=SemanticsMenu&volume=4

Sindarin Dictionary www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sindar/

Quenya Names at Council of Elrond
Translatioins of common names into Quenya
www.councilofelrond.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Semantics&file=index&options=SemanticsMenu&volume=5

Adunaic
www.uib.no/People/hnohf/adunaic.htm

Land of Shadows (Shadowlandian) Black Speech Dialect
www.thelandofshadow.com/mordorgate/darkdownloads/blackspeech/speech1.htm

Red Hand Orcs Black Speech Dialect
www.geocities.com/thequietwraith/rhowordlist.html

Svartiska in English
www.geocities.com/thequietwraith/svwordlist.html

Other Black Speech Resources
www.geocities.com/thequietwraith/blackspeech.html

Ardalambion
Information on all of Tolkien's created languages, word lists, grammatical rules and links
www.uib.no/People/hnohf/index.html

OLD NAMES OF EUROPE

Anglo-Saxon Names For Men and Women
www.s-gabriel.org/names/aelfwyn/bede.html

Anglo-Saxon Women's Names
www.s-gabriel.org/names/marieke/anglosaxonfem/

Old English Names
www.ealdriht.org/names/Englishnames.htm

Old English Dictionary
home.comcast.net/~modean52/oeme_dictionaries.htm

Old Norse Men's Names
www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONMensNames.shtml

Old Norse Women's Names
www.vikinganswerlady.com/ONWomensNames.shtml

Old Norse Names
www.ealdriht.org/names/Norsenames.htm

Elements in Old Gothic Names
us.geocities.com/yeshua666/gothnames.html

EASTERN NAMES

Masculine Arabic Names
www.sudairy.com/arabic/masc.html

Feminine Arabic Names
www.sudairy.com/arabic/fem.html

Sumerian Language Page
www.sumerian.org

Sumerian/Akkadian Database
psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/nepsd-frame.html