Have a lot of time on your hands? Figure out a name for yourself in Sindarin Elvish! It only takes several hours and a few web-sites to make an informed guess! If you dig a bit more you could probably come up with a name in the high-speech of the Numenoreans!

To get you started, here’s a good (the best?) lexicon with english to sindarin and sindarin to english dictionaries:

http://www.jrrvf.com/hisweloke/sindar/online/english.html

Also, here’s a name-list site that gives you clues as to how to piece things together without delving into the nuts and bolts of language syntax:

http://www.realelvish.net/sindarin_names.php

Based on my name and appearance a few work-in-progress names in Sindarin would be:

Thindiel meaning Pale Daughter or Daughter of The Pale
Idhreneth meaning Wise Woman
Idhreniel meaning Daughter of Wisdom
Thindhreniel meaning Pale Daughter of Wisdom

I like Thindhreniel most of all so that is the name I will take for now. Even so, there were no good examples of as complex a structure that I could find readily so the syntax will have to be researched. Then again, often Tolkien’s names were contractions of original words so it would more likely past muster as a name if not as used in a sentence. I’ll render the name in the Elvish script of Quenya today or tomorrow just in case you’re not convinced I have idle time to spare during recovery! :) The only problem is using it in anything like one solid consecutive chunk to get anything really productive done. Blergh!

Jani