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I can’t critique something like this while knowing an Aiden, Brayden, and Cayden
Hey, he created a whole fantasy universe. Give him a break if he ran out of imagination when creating his 100th character.
True. In fact, it’s that he has come up with so many great names that makes this especially funny IMO 😁
Kinda like if Leonardo da Vinci had also painted the one with dogs playing poker 😉
Also Tolkien: thrain, dain, nain, balin, dwalin, oin , gloin, dori, nori, ori, bifur, bifur, bombur…
/> bifur, bifur
me but twice?!
You’ll never guess what kind of dog he had.
A labradoodle?
Oddly enough, a Rhodesian Ridgeback.
Me prepping for DMing: “fuck, I need a cool name for a forest…”
Famous fantasy author: “dark forest”
“ich believen we needen ein name für unser forest which so dense zat no light gets through… ach ja! Black forest!”
Ohoho, you’ll never guess what name I gave the bearded tree fellow!
J. R.R. Tolkien like:
So the Big Bad is gonna be named Sauron and his right hand man will be called Saruman.
And there’ll be some dwarves named Thorin, and uhh… damn I need 13 of these? Alright fuck it let’s go: Fili, Kili, Balin, Dwalin, Ori, Nori, Dori, Gloin, Oin, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur.
And then there’s these ancient elves named… hmm… screw it: Finwe, Feanor, Fingolfin, Finarfin, and Findis
Making up names like Ann, Ana, Anna, Annie, Anita, Juanita, Juliana, Julia, Jessica, Jessie, Jess, Jen, Jenny, Jennifer…
And the two love interests shall be Arwen and Eowyn.
This tripped me up the most as a kid. “That lady is clearly not an elf, did they swap actors??”
Took me ages to get the names right lol.
Probably my biggest complaint about LotR honestly. That and Sauron vs Saruman.
Honestly it’s just good writing. A name indicates culture, so it makes sense that dwarfs and elves would have some commonalities among their respective culture.
For me as a reader this is good (and bad). A name tells me what it is — good, but by being this similar it’s harder to tell who they are — bad.
but by being this similar it’s harder to tell who they are — bad.
This is works fine with side characters that do not matter individually as much as the story and world that requires them
And when it was important to highlight specific characters, they had very distinguished names in context. Like even though Boromir and Faramir had similar names, no one would mix them up because those 2 are shown in completely different places within the story
This meme would only work if the Big Bad was called sumn like Magic Evilman and the dwarves like Shorty McHero
