Seiler%MIT-XX@sri-unix.UUCP (07/08/83)
From: Larry Seiler <Seiler@MIT-XX> Actually, Tolkein took many names from Beowolf and other classical sources (Gandalf, all 13 dwarfs from The Hobbit, and (I believe) many of the names of heros & supernatural beings in Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion) (But I think he made up Bilbo and Frodo). So the "problem" of the name space running out is quite old. Perhaps names are like plots - they've all been used (in one form or another) and writing a story consists of making up new combinations, not in inventing an entirely new plot or entirely new names. -------
tim@unc.UUCP (07/12/83)
This one will be of interest only to Moorcock fans. I was browsing through Genesis (you know the one, it's a barbaric religious history associated with Semitic belief) and what should I find in one of the genealogies but the name Arioch. I had wondered where Moorcock got that one from. If anyone is interested, I'll dig up chapter and verse. ______________________________________ The overworked keyboard of Tim Maroney duke!unc!tim (USENET) tim.unc@udel-relay (ARPA) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) (07/14/83)
I beleive the name "Frodo" occurs somewhere in Victor Hugo's
"Hunchback of Notre Dame", written a few centuries before Tolkien's
"...Rings" novels. It has been quite a few years since I have read
"HoND", but I think Frodo was the priest who raised Quasamodo (or
whatever his name was).
In the late 60's, a friend of mine had a rather trendy rubber stamp
that said "Frodo Lives!". He stamped it on about every record album
he had at the time.
-- Walt Tucker
Tektronix, Inc
Wilsonville, OR