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Finrod
Lorien
Dec 24 2011, 3:01pm
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Amaizingly corny Dwarven idiosyncracies
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I think you're spot on about Ori having a monastic look (“Exaudi orationem meam”, and all) reflecting his name’s connection to Spanish orar, to pray. He’s the Company’s scribe, too, which is in keeping with a monachal avocation. There is a Twengwa letter named ore, too, which is normally one of the rhotics (the other being romen). I just hope he doesn’t go arrrr! like a pirate a lot.
I guess we should also count our blessings that Bombur doesn't sport a bomber jacket or like to play with explosives, and that Nori doesn’t look like he has seaweed in his hair from all the nori-wrapped sushi.
Hm, perhaps Dori will sleep a lot, from dormant, dormitory, and Spanish dormir. Or he will have a taste for fish, from Spanish dorado, the Spanish name for the fish we in English now call “mahi-mahi” (that is, Coryphaena hippurus), but which we once called “dolphinfish” back before it got remarketed with a nonmammalian name.
Then again, El Dorado as a fabled land flowing with gold is pretty much in keeping with Dwarven dreams, so that could work, too.
Hard not to think of all this as being amaizingly corny, though. Oh well. :)
…all eyes looked upon the ring; for he held it now aloft, and the green jewels gleamed there that the Noldor had devised in Valinor. For this ring was like to twin serpents, whose eyes were emeralds, and their heads met beneath a crown of golden flowers, that the one upheld and the other devoured; that was the badge of Finarfin and his house.The Silmarillion, pp 150-151 while Felagund laughs beneath the treesin Valinor and comes no more
to this grey world of tears and war.The Lays of Beleriand, p 311
(This post was edited by Finrod on Dec 24 2011, 3:03pm)
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Oin is a punny guy
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Finrod
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Dec 24 2011, 2:24am
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You learn something new everyday!
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Maiarmike
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Dec 24 2011, 2:27am
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Yes, Del Toro seems to have been a fan of playing on puns in the dwarves' designs...
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QuackingTroll
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Dec 24 2011, 2:31am
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Oakenshield
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titanium_hobbit
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Dec 24 2011, 6:33am
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I wonder if anyone has a problem with Oin's hearing aid
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redgiraffe
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Dec 24 2011, 2:47am
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Bifurcation
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Finrod
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Dec 24 2011, 3:09am
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He's not the first dwarf to have an ear trumpet...
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Silverlode
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Dec 24 2011, 9:12am
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I don't see what's wrong with that
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Faenoriel
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Dec 24 2011, 3:38am
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Besides, we already established Bofur is the bunny. :D //
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Faenoriel
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Dec 24 2011, 3:39am
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Anyone
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Balin88
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Dec 24 2011, 4:52am
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oh yes!
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flodwyns
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Dec 24 2011, 12:31pm
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Yep, a complete joke, just like 'The Devil's Backbone'. //
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Flagg
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Dec 24 2011, 2:58pm
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Ori sounds like "Orar" in Spanish, which means "Pray," which would explain his monk-like appearance.//
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Bladerunner
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Dec 24 2011, 1:23pm
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Oooh, nice find!
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Faenoriel
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Dec 24 2011, 2:39pm
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Amaizingly corny Dwarven idiosyncracies
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Finrod
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Dec 24 2011, 3:01pm
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Sometimes that's how imagination works
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Faenoriel
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Dec 24 2011, 3:18pm
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This is very random
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Niniel Valinor
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Dec 24 2011, 3:02pm
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Kili the Killer
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Finrod
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Dec 24 2011, 4:34pm
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But in Spanish to kill is "matar". Doesn't sound like Kíli.
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Faenoriel
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Dec 24 2011, 4:57pm
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Pues
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Finrod
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Dec 24 2011, 5:10pm
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Whatever the case
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Faenoriel
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Dec 24 2011, 6:40pm
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With all these puns I still cannot figure out Nori's Star head...
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QuackingTroll
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Dec 25 2011, 12:24am
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It doesn't have to be a direct pun of his name, but
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Faenoriel
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Dec 25 2011, 1:28am
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