Comments on: Bottom 10 Names In (Or Related To) Fantasy — Suggestions?

By: Sineplex

Sineplex — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:49:27 +0000

Wait, my screen name. My originality just TOTALLY failed me, but I simply -had- to share my love of this webcomic then and there. *headdesk*

By: Sineplex

Sineplex — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:47:59 +0000

There were many ass-pulls in the run of that comic. It was made of ass-pulls. That was its very ‘thing’. But I say this: Honestly, I never thought of the plot development, after BM says that, to be one of them.

Balrog. Shadow (I’m thinking of the one in Illusion of Time/Gaia, for making zero sense). But for me it’s difficult to conceive how a name could be just *terrible* except for being unpronounceable, overlong, or just god-ugly. When any name can sound pretty if you personalize it enough, this makes the space of bad names merely a lesson in phonology.

By: Lynxx

Lynxx — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:26:32 +0000

Argent- latin word for silver. Got a character related to silver? Or better yet, a silver dragon? Name him this.

By: Seb

Seb — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:04:42 +0000

Fawk. Fawk Skidivee

By: fatbus

fatbus — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:39:35 +0000

any character in a sara douglass book.
I mean, ‘Axis Battleaxe’ – thats probably one of the better ones.
I read one of her series and would inwardly cringe at every character’s name, especially ones like ‘Stardrifter’. I can only forgive that kind of thing in a 70’s paperback.