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[eri-pl]

So, Figwit

That elf from LoTR movies, whose name is an acronym of "Frodo is great, who is that?". I just realized that we can give him a proper name.

Long post with linguistics speculation under cut.

So, fig… OK, there's no official Sindarin word for a fig :((( just a Quenya neologism "relyávë". With "rel" being probably the main root I need here. Whatever. I'm gonna make him a Noldo, even a Feanorian if I had to. Let's go with a Quenya name then… Those are hard. :(

"wit" is "tunto" with a *, so probably it's another sus word. Whatever.

Iirc, Quenya likes to go noun-descriptor, so Relyátunto… Yes, sounds like a legit name! How to Sindarize it now? eh, let's go with the classic Exilic "just take the main syllabes and roll with it" Reltun. Still doesn't sound good… OK, let's do the commonly used "just turn some of the vowels to o" and make it Relton. Fine. Or Reldon (making things voiced is also a thing) but this sounds too much like Sheldon.

Ok, 2nd attempt. Let's assume Sindarin would use just "rel" for the fig, because this seems like something they would do, using the easy half of the Quenya word. And go with "sael" which is "wisdom", but with how Tolkien uses this word, it's not far from "wit". Or "glaudh" which is a neologism for "joke / jest". hmm, I like the later more.

OK, so "rel" + "glaudh" + "-dir" or "-on", because gender suffixes or maybe "-or" which is the same as English "-er" ie "the doer of the thing".

The merging tutorial… Adjective/descriptor first, unless ugly, so let's keep the order for now. "rel" + "glaudh" + "or" → rel" + "laudh" + "or" → "rel" + "lodh" + "or" probably → Rellodhor? Ok...

Let's try the other way around. "glaudh" + "rel" + "or" → "glod" + "rel" + "or" → Glodrelor. Sounds more stereotypically Elvish.

Aaaaargh… So I now went to Wikipedia page for him and someone already did the name? And used a different word for "fig" taht is allegedly canon??? I don't like the whole name, they made him into a muse, but ok let's go with "fig"="melpo" I like it, figs are sweet. Hmmm, elfdics says it's gooseberry, but this word feels much more like fig than like a gooseberry, the canon can go get eaten by spiders, my lámatyáve says it's a fig, so it's a fig. And the Sindarin for it is "meleb" or maybe "melep" because I said so ("before-sweet" is a valid etymology for a fig, deal with it)

Let's do the name now. And yes, I am keeping the "wit" `≅ "jest" (= "glaudh"). Blame Brandon Sanderson for me having this association. He's called a fig-jester, this is my HC now. Doing them in the normal order results in really ugly-sounding words, so:

"glaudh" +"meleb" + "or" → "glaudh" +"veleb" + "or" [that's a funny change] → "glodh" +"veleb" + "or" → Glodhvelebor, this doesn't sound pronouncable for an English speaker, more like a Witcher character XD. I'm gonna bend the rules and treat the "v" like an "f". Glodhevelebor. Yes, it's long. He's young, he can have a long name.

But who would call his son "fig jester", you ask me. Hmm.

Remember how in LotR there's that Elf in ME who for no clear reason introduces himself as the son of Finrod. So, Gildor (who I assume originally had a much longer name) and his brother, and probably a sister or two, but of course, the sisters are never mentioned, were born in aman after Finrod got reembodied and married, and were already adults by the time when Glorfindel was sent to ME. they sneaked into the boat, because they were curious too see ME. the Valar of course knew, but come on, those are Finrod's kids, they're so cute— also Námo thought they'll be less depressed if they don't have to witness the whole Númenor trainwreck and go help fight Sauron instead.

Why would Finrod find "fig jester" a good name? Vibes. Finrod is the Elvish esp Telerin) mix of happy-sad, but also has tones of the… I'd call this wholesomely creepy (see: the werewolf incident). And This matchest the vibe. If you want to know why figs are weird, I wrote a short fic about it.

And yes, this makes this name more like mothername than like fathername, but I doubr Finrod would care.

…or maybe the kid was just very happy and liked figs.

Why is his name in Sindarin then? Figwit translated it, of course, to not look suspicious. :D (Also, he dyes his gold hair to a darker color)

What was the original? Hmmm... "melpo" + "tunto" (wit), but it's Quenya so the order is arbitraty + we can mutate the words a bit. Let's just make it Tuntamelpo (sees a fig), and roll with it. The joking part has been a subtext. I'm sure there's a story behind it. At least there's nothing about hair in this name.

So this is it, that's the story of Figwit and his name[s].

Thank you for reading, here's a potato poll

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