I had already told my story on another thread, and so wasn't going to repeat myself here. However, with our recent loss, the thread is no longer, so I may as well join the club and tell my story. (Plus as Paul pointed out, it'll help my post count!
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I've been on the net for maybe 4 or so yrs now, but it wasn't until a year and a half ago that I decided to 'get involed' and make my presence known. I had always heard the warnings, 'Don't tell anyone your real name/give out any personal details on the net', which must have ingrained themselves on my brain, so I decided I had to come up with a nickname. I wanted something unusual/that no one else had and I also wanted a name that meant something, so one of my friends, LotR crazy, suggested using something Tolkienesque. She dragged out her copy of The Sillmarillion and I got some Latin and Frech dictionaries, and we came up with Loriel Eris.
Laure - from Tolkien, means shine, or radient, as in light, and is also similar to my real name
-el - from Tolkien, is maiden (quite appropriate!)
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Eris - can't remember where exacly it came from. I tried looking it up in the latin and french dictionaries when I posted previously but I couldn't find it. I think I must have mauled beyond belief from its original form.
It probably means
born or
from as when I was trying to make up a name I wanted something like
Star Traveller or
Born form the stars. The first is my wishful thinking - I'd love to be a mission specialist on one of the flights up into space, or on the space station, and the second came from the fact that 'we're all made from star material.
Anyway, if you apply some poetic licence Loriel Eris means something like
Maiden born of the light, which was as close as I could get at the time.
That's my story.
Loriel (who's just realised that all the graemlins are back. Yeah!
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