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Tolkienisms

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 11:32 am
by Vee
The name of the Spidercave "Ardhungol" in The East sounds very much a leftover from Tolkienish names (Sindarin/Quenya in origin?).

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:34 pm
by Massimiliano Marangio
Also Tol Falas (Tolfalas is an island in Middle Earth) and Trollshaws.

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:36 pm
by darkgod
Tol Falas is renamed now.
Trollshaws sounds generic to me, but maybe it's not ?

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:10 pm
by Massimiliano Marangio
Trollwoods instead of Trollshaws?

Also found another one: "helcaraxe" in the Blood-Letter artifact.

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:53 pm
by Vee
Trollshaws sounds generic to me as well. Trollwoods sounds a little .. meh.
Same with Old Forest - its originally from Tolkien, but generic enough to stay imho.

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:35 pm
by Grey
Should barrow wights be renamed? I know it's fairly generic, but if you stack up all these genericy things then it all gets a bit obvious. They could simply be called "wights", with the higher versions left as is.

Trollshaws... trollmoors?

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:39 pm
by Vee
I like that one: Trollmoors
Don't ask me why though.

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:51 pm
by Sirrocco
Trollmoors are used in more than one place, but they're pretty heavily Forgotten Realms.

Trollmurk?
Trollweald?
Trollwilds?

The Old Forest and the Trolled Forest?

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:17 pm
by greycat
There's enough water in it that it could be called the Trollfen(s).

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:29 pm
by kingvictory2003
Trolled Forest? Is that another name for the WoW forums? :lol:

I like Trollmoors, as I definitely love FR. The other suggestions are all good, and my opinion on Trollshaws is that it is generic enough.

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 4:47 pm
by PowerWyrm
I found traces of Noldor, Nandor, Eldar for the elves on the wiki (character generation page).
And what about Anorithil? Ungole?

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:19 pm
by Sirrocco
Given that the first page of "Anorithil" on google search is pretty much pure TOME, I think we're fine there. Ungole is certainly remniscent of Cirith Ungole and Ungoliant, but should be pretty much safe. It's remniscent of Tolkein, certainly, but there's a question as to how hard you want to push on that.

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 6:40 pm
by greycat
PowerWyrm wrote:I found traces of Noldor, Nandor, Eldar for the elves on the wiki (character generation page).
Got 'em.

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:52 am
by vstat
I also believe that in your quest log it still says Old Man Willow.

Re: Tolkienisms

Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2010 4:03 pm
by PowerWyrm
Loremaster Verutir's note still talks about Valinor and the Avari.