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On fim, 2008-07-31 at 13:26 -0400, Galen Johnson wrote:<BR>
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<TT>Bilbo?</TT><BR>
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:D <BR>
That would not keep the lawyers from knocking on <BR>
Henriks door (symbolically speaking). If anything, <BR>
they would be even more eager. <BR>
Hobbit is the name of a species in J.R.R. Tolkiens <BR>
stories, and it is only named in his stories. <BR>
There are other things like the Shire that are <BR>
associated with those that are somehow associated with <BR>
Hobbit Monitor, and that might give some similarities <BR>
to thoes stories. <BR>
There is however a mythology that those stories are <BR>
built upon, a mythology that is in the public domain. <BR>
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Even though I personally like the name Hobbit Monitor <BR>
best, or Hobbitmon, the name Gandalfr <BR>
Monitor, could be an option to be considered. <BR>
The name Gandalfr and the name Elf or Alf are much <BR>
older than Tolkiens work, dated back to about the year <BR>
1300 AD in Völuspá and the Elder Edda by the icelandic <BR>
authors. <BR>
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See: <BR>
<A HREF="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Gandalfr">http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Gandalfr</A> <BR>
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The Old Norse name <B>"Gandalfr"</B> appears in the list of <A HREF="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Dwarves">dwarves</A> in the <A HREF="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/V%C3%B6lusp%C3%A1">Völusp</A>á of the Elder <A HREF="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Edda">Edda</A>; the name means "wand-elf." Tolkien took the name along with the <A HREF="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Dwarves">dwarves</A>' names when he wrote The Hobbit in the 1930s.
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He came to regret the creation of this "rabble of eddaic-named <A HREF="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Dwarves">dwarves, </A>[...] invented in an idle hour" (The Return of the Shadow:452), since it forced him to come up with an explanation of why Old Norse names should be used in Third Age Middle-earth.
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<B><A HREF="http://andersandersen.com/weblog/item/82?memberid=1">Meaning Of Names In The Lord Of The Ring - Anders Andersen's WebLog</A></B> <FONT COLOR="#bebebe">(324 words)</FONT>
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In an Old Norse poem, Tolkien found a list of <A HREF="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Dwarf">dwarf</A> names which included <B>"Gandalfr."</B> Since alfr means "<A HREF="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Elf">elf</A>," he began to wonder what an <A HREF="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Elf">elf</A> was doing in a company of <A HREF="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Dwarf">dwarfs</A>.
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Tolkien interpreted the first element ("Gand") of <B>"Gandalfr"</B> to mean "wand." This gave Tolkien the notion that <B>Gandalfr</B> must be a sorcerer-elf who possessed a magic wand or staff.
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<B>Gandalfr</B>, he theorized, must have joined the band of <A HREF="http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Dwarf">dwarfs</A> to obtain some special sort of magical plunder.
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Unix System Aministration, Computing Services, %& Q: Why is top posting bad?
University of Iceland.
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