Archives: Elvish Names

  • Desdemona

    Greek; ‘ill-fated’ Quenya: Ulcamartë

  • Ernest

    Germanic; ‘seriousness’ Quenya: Úlalion (‘unsmiling’ – no Quenya word meaning ‘serious’ is known)

  • Ramon

    Spanish meaning ‘wise defender’: Wíswarian, Fródscyldan, Gléawerian

  • Chase

    Old French; ‘chase, hunt’ Quenya: Roimo

  • Isaac

    Hebrew meaning ‘to laugh’: Hlehhan

  • Rosie

    Meaning ‘rose’. Unfortunately there is no known word for rose, or even for flower, in Anglo-Saxon. Two possible translations are ‘thorn plant’, Þornwyrt, and ‘beautiful plant’, Fægerplantian, Torhtwyrt.

  • Peter

    Greek meaning ‘stone’: Stán

  • Petra

    Feminine form of Peter.

  • Colton

    ‘From the dark town’. Sindarin: (from {the} dark town) Ondollost, Odúrost, Omornost ||

  • Poliane

    name of one of the founding tribes of Poland, ‘people of the plain’. Sindarin: Ladwaith, Talathwaith ||