# Thank you, Lynn **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 6, 2005, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-lynn/293200 "2005-03-06T11:10:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-lynn/293200/1 "2005-03-06T11:10:23Z")
Lynn recently helped me kill my old screen name. Due to a personal/professional problem, I had to do away with my old name. Lynn was very helpful and arranged to move my _Charter Member_ status to my new name and let the old one fade into history. Thanks for the help, **Lynn Bodoni**. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-lynn/293200/2 "2005-03-06T14:26:20Z")
And who were you before? Is that you, **Hurin**? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-lynn/293200/3 "2005-03-06T17:23:17Z")
Uh, **Qadgop** , I think you’re thinking of his son. Hurin never changed his name. …then again, Turin didn’t seem to have much luck with it, either, no matter how many times he tried. More seriously, I suppose that the afore-mentioned personal/professional problems might counterindicate **Thalion** revealing his old name, and the Powers that Be are apparently OK with that. So it might be best not to ask. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-lynn/293200/4 "2005-03-06T17:45:12Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Uh, **Qadgop** , I think you’re thinking of his son. Hurin never changed his name. > > …then again, Turin didn’t seem to have much luck with it, either, no matter how many times he tried. > > More seriously, I suppose that the afore-mentioned personal/professional problems might counterindicate **Thalion** revealing his old name, and the Powers that Be are apparently OK with that. So it might be best not to ask. Gosh, **Chronos** , never heard of **[Hurin Thalion](http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/s/steadfast.html)**, the _Steadfast_, last lord of Dor-Lomin? I was identifying our OP as a fellow JRRT geek, not trying to solicit his former name. Granted, I was doing it clumsily. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-lynn/293200/5 "2005-03-06T18:38:11Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > I was identifying our OP as a fellow JRRT geek, not trying to solicit his former name. Granted, I was doing it clumsily. Ug. I just realized that identifying him as such may have compromised him. Crap. I’ve emailed Lynn on the matter: She can fix anything! Sorry if I mucked anything up. Serves me right for being a smart-ass. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-lynn/293200/6 "2005-03-06T19:28:21Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Ug. I just realized that identifying him as such may have compromised him. Crap. I’ve emailed Lynn on the matter: She can fix anything! > > Sorry if I mucked anything up. Serves me right for being a smart-ass. Seems to me that **Thalion** would have done better thanking **Lynn** via email. Posting a thread like this amounts to a public announcement that there’s something hidden in his past. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-lynn/293200/7 "2005-03-06T19:56:08Z")
Maybe closing this one will cut down on speculation.