Something I'm kind of struggling to wrap my head around. Is there a way for multiple word given names to work in English? Have you ever seen it done well? Just from a grammatical standpoint, it seems very difficult to construct sentences around a character with a name that is made up of multiple normal english words.

I don't even have any examples of such names yet because while I have the concept of a world in which names are supposed to be very directly and unambiguously meaningful, I haven't come up with one yet that doesn't completely fail a basic "Hello, my name is" test

Basically, how do I break English name rules without it sounding 110% fucked up?

  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    A couple of famous examples

    Skink-in-tree's-shade

    Morning-star-steals-away-clouds

    Frodo-of-the-Nine-Fingers

    Cher

    Megan-thee-Stallion

    • Retrosound [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Frodo is his name, of the nine fingers is just an epithet.

      Fun fact: Frodo is just his name in Westron, the common language. His real name in Hobbitish is Maura Labingi. In Sindarin it was Iorhael, which is just Maura translated (wise by experience).