5 ms·
One of my classmates in an IT course was named Aragorn. I thought about asking him whether his parents chose the name but decided I didn’t want to know.
by tjalfi 7y ago
One of my classmates in an IT course was named Aragorn.
I thought about asking him whether his parents chose the name but decided I didn’t want to know.
- aidenn0 7y agoMy sister has a friend named Arwen and her dad says she would have been named "Frodo" if she had been a boy. Dodged a bullet there.
- scarejunba 7y agoAmusing how books have to achieve a certain vintage before names from them become acceptable. I wonder if, in the year 3000, it will be acceptable to name a child Arwen and not have it thought of as weird. Or perhaps there needs to arise a cult around LoTR before that becomes acceptable. If Scientology enters the mainstream, perhaps children will be called Xenu completely normally. Maybe the name Jesus will be treated like the name Nimrod. Then again, there is powerful normalcy-bias here. A name is acceptable if it is very similar to established names and if there is variance it's rarely among the established power class. So perhaps we'll need a massive disruption. The Scientologists will have to kill a large number of people and subjugate us to have names no longer just be James and Jennifer. Or maybe we'll need a modern well-loved person to call their child Eliohann.
- PaulStatezny 7y ago> If Scientology enters the mainstream, perhaps children will be called Xenu completely normally. I thought scientologists wanted to keep Xenu under wraps? (Never mind that the cat was let out of the bag long ago :-)
- scarejunba 7y agoHaha, sadly not a Scientologist so I must admit ignorance.
- mindcrime 7y agoI met a lady named "Arwen" once. I asked her about it and she just said "My parents were total LoTR hippies." But while it stood out to me at the time, it didn't strike me as name that was ridiculous or anything. Just distinctive. Now Frodo... that would just seem weird. Or Gandalf for that matter.
- n0rbwah 7y agoArwen isn't that weird though, a quick search says it can also be of welsh origin rather than LotR geek origin.
- jlgaddis 7y ago> I thought about asking him whether his parents chose the name but decided I didn’t want to know. Who else would have named him?
- Rebelgecko 7y agoSome people name themselves. Sometimes you can even tell how old they were when they came up with their name
- albedoa 7y agoYou can't think of a single person besides his parents who would have named him?