# Want to know your Elvish Name? Post it here! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319 "2006-02-27T15:25:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/21 "2006-02-27T16:33:54Z")
Real Name: Valandil Lissësúl SD: Eöl Melwasúl Real Name: Mungo Toadfoot SD: Grigory Chubb You know…I think I prefer the elven ones. 😛 Apperently i’m related to **Kythereia** as an elf, and both her and **Mr Bus Guy** as a hobbit. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/22 "2006-02-27T16:54:20Z")
Elvish real name is Gilraen Ringëril Elvish SD is Arwen Anwamanë Hobbit real name is **Pansy Sackville-Baggins**! Hobbit SD is Zelda Broadbelt of Buckland. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/23 "2006-02-27T16:54:22Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Whoa, we’re long-lost sisters! :eek: > > Or there’s something up with the generator. Anybody have any idea how it works? My educated Guess: I am a Programmer and Tolkien fanatic. It has a large database of names. Flowery names for female Hobbits, Hobbit like names for males. A large index of Last names and locations for both. The Elvish uses a list of Elvish male and female names from the books and then an Elvish word generator to build a list of last names. In all cases the programmer has built a routine that uses a value based on your name to index these 6 databases. If anyone wants more detail on their name I’ll will try to provide it, let me know. Jim ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/24 "2006-02-27T17:02:29Z")
Aerandir Surion ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/25 "2006-02-27T17:04:44Z")
_**BAH! ELVES IS SISSIES!**_ Time for good **ORC** names! [http://www.thelandofshadow.com/mordorgate/darkdownloads/blackspeech/orcname.htm](http://www.thelandofshadow.com/mordorgate/darkdownloads/blackspeech/orcname.htm) \< grunt \> I am **Badzûrz, the groveler - Uruk of Mordor**! ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/26 "2006-02-27T17:17:14Z")
AARRRGGHH! I am Uglûk, the proud, Uruk of Mordor! My elf name yeilds: Narnûlubat, the severed hand. And my hobbit name gives me: Rûm, the swift. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/27 "2006-02-27T17:17:33Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > _**BAH! > ELVES IS SISSIES!**_ > > Time for good **ORC** names! > …snip… Oxymoron there. Time for a bad Orc name, perhaps? Time for Cruel and heartless Orc Name? Time for a throat cracking Orc name? I like the last. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/28 "2006-02-27T17:23:17Z")
Elvish Name = Alatáriël Elensar Hobbit Name = Myrtle Hamwich of Buckleberry Fern ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/29 "2006-02-27T17:23:47Z")
I’d rather be Elvish, but my orc name is: Barash, the bloated - Uruk of Mordor I don’t wanna be bloated. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/30 "2006-02-27T17:25:46Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I’d rather be Elvish, but my orc name is: > > Barash, the bloated - Uruk of Mordor > > I don’t wanna be bloated. But a good orc is a dead and bloated orc, or dead and burnt, or dead and buried. I think there is a pattern here. I got it. A Good Orc is a dead Orc. Jim ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/31 "2006-02-27T17:37:42Z")
Elvish name: Ireth Ciryatan Hobbit Name: Primula Foxburr of Fair Downs ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/32 "2006-02-27T17:39:10Z")
Minions, bow before your leader! **Raakhuga, the demon - Uruk of Mordor** speaks! Arrise! Attack! KILL!!! that felt good, in a venting sort of way… maybe orcses ain’t so bad… ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/33 "2006-02-27T18:09:20Z")
Galdor Númenessë 😛 Bungo Bolger ☹ ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/34 "2006-02-27T18:15:22Z")
Aha! Eleanor Rigby=Anghâsh, the crusher - Uruk of Mordor I’ll crush you, you bloated Orc, you! (sorry about the coding upthread, btw) ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/35 "2006-02-27T18:23:06Z")
Oh, and my hobbit name is Till Hardbottle. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/36 "2006-02-27T18:40:54Z")
SDuser elf Findaráto of Nargothrond real name elf Curufinwë Tinehtelë SDuser hobbit Bolo Hornblower of Waymoot real name hobbit Mongo Danderfluff …I think I’ll stick with the elf names. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/37 "2006-02-27T18:47:56Z")
SD user orc Barash, the bloated - Uruk of Mordor …but I’m not **Anaamika**!! real name orc Saakaf, the winged - Uruk of Mordor ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/38 "2006-02-27T18:57:59Z")
My elfname is Elrond Tasartir. Very cool I’m an Elrond. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/39 "2006-02-27T18:59:53Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Time for a throat cracking Orc name? Throats no crack…dey SQUISH! I know. _ **YOU FLUNK PRACTICALS!** _ BACK TO ORC SCHOOL! Only dis time, _no luxuries_! You know what _dat_ means. 6 month course of study…no Oxygen. All udder privileges _cancelled_! signed, Badzûrz, the groveler, PhD. - Uruk of Mordor and Dean of Wandering Monsters. ---
**Author:** ![Agonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@Agonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agonist)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319/40 "2006-02-27T19:14:41Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Or there’s something up with the generator. Anybody have any idea how it works? Somewhere on the site it explains the program (I found it a long time ago and am explaining this from memory, so no link): There are three lists of names, taken from Tolkein’s indexes: female first names, male first names, and last names. The program takes the first and last letters of each name given and matches it to a name on the list. John Smith matches to whatever name is next to JN on the male name list and SH on the last name list. So Kythereia and Dolores Reborn don’t necessarily have the same last name, but the first and last letters of their last names are the same. One is Parker and the other is Potter, or something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-know-your-elvish-name-post-it-here/346319.md?page=3)