Fantasy names?

[sursumcorda.livejournal.com]

One of my regular guests at work is a little girl named Arwen. Thoughts?

I think a name like that is something you can get away with because it's not super crazy "out there" or too fantasy-ish, you know? Although I do have a friend who had to convince her friend not to name her child Frodo.

Comments

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

I agree with you: it's pretty, but not too "out there", and I guess someone who wasn't familiar with LOTR could interpret it as a Gaelic or Welsh name. Frodo would be...eh. Could go either way? I'm not sure a parent could get away with Meriadoc, Galadriel, Gandalf, Legolas, or Samwise, though.

Now I'm thinking of Pepper, a.k.a. Pippin Galadriel Moonchild, from Good Omens.

[ninimoon.livejournal.com]

Galadriel is a name where you can KIND of get away with it for me. I guess it reminds me of Gabrielle...