Arwen's Realm

[Blood_River]

Check it out: http://www.behindthename.com/ My name is Douglas.

Anglicized form of the Scottish surname Dubhghlas, which meant "dark river" from Gaelic dubh "dark" and glais "water, river". Douglas was originally a river name, which then became a Scottish clan name (belonging to a powerful line of Scottish earls). It has been used as a given name since the 16th century.

I've also seen Douglas translated as Blood River(hence my screen name), and Black Hill. According to this site I'm wrong... aw well, I still like Blood River. But anyways, post the meaning of your name!

[refractor82]

According to this site I'm wrong...

I have always thought of behindthename.com as giving more of a background of a name rather than an actual meaning. They seem to be careful not to give any false info. That said, I'm sure if you translate your name in more of a conceptual manner instead of a word-for-word, you'd probably be right.

According to that site my name is a derivative of "Mars" the Roman god of war. I have heard it translated as meaning "Warrior" or "Mighty Warrior." Obviously, I like that much better than the paragraph that behind the name gives me.

[VaultDweller1981]

AARON
Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek

Other Scripts: אַהֲרֹן (Ancient Hebrew), Ααρων (Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: AR-ən (English), ER-ən (English) [key]

From the Hebrew name אַהֲרֹן ('Aharon) which is most likely of unknown Egyptian origin. Other theories claim a Hebrew derivation, and suggest meanings such as "high mountain" or "exalted". In the Old Testament this name was borne by the older brother of Moses and the first high priest of the Israelites. He acted as a spokesman for his brother, and carried a miraculous rod. As an English name, Aaron has been in use since the Protestant Reformation.
hmm i knew of it but meh!!


GRAHAM
Gender: Masculine

Usage: Scottish, English

Pronounced: GRAY-əm, GRAM [key]

From a Scottish surname which was originally derived from an English place name which probably meant "gravelly homestead" in Old English. The surname was first taken to Scotland in the 12th century by the Norman baron William de Graham. A famous bearer was Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-Canadian-American inventor who devised the telephone.

& thats my name b4 depole change but still again something i knew but was still worth the look O & mine was spelt Graeme it's just the silly thing had the info in the more common graham *sigh* idk what can ya say we name your selves from where we lay down our heads back then, today maybe more ethnical because of intermingleing of specie's .
Anywho thats what i got from there nice to see an idea of intrest i took alot of a likeing to our familiy tree researcher she was a lovely person & there work is intresting none the less..

[Arwen]

Ok, mine was like no surprise ...

ARWEN
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Literature
Means "noble maiden" in Sindarin. In 'The Lord of the Rings' (1954) by J. R. R. Tolkien, Arwen was the daughter of Elrond and the lover of Aragorn.

[VaultDweller1981]

Ur J.R.R meaning is stuffed compared to what tolkien himself said, I use to own a copy of his book's re writen by his producer/publisher?...
ill have to dig around & see what wierd & wonderfull thing's i can find out...
Cause it sounds strange to me i always thought the human rohan female i 4get her name shame on me... tsk tsk
Was the one that had the name meaning noble maiden tho i may be confuseing that with the fact in most of the RTS/RPG's she is classed as the Shield Maiden in the rohan side of thing's infact the female rohirim where in just as capable if not better than the men that rode of to fight the coming army's......
There maternal instinc's backed with the pride and love of there homeland made them very deadly indeed....
idk ill go digging...
hmm sindarin(grey elf) or elf from the lost shore's... there leader was a demi god type so where many other creature's you had seen in the movie or read in the book's.
Shealob was once a beautiful demi untill she angered here higer up and was cursed to be in that form infact just about anything that had perpose had a governing court of near-god's & demi god's Gandalf as gandalf the grey was in training as they all are his charge was the half folk tho most of this lore is covered there where 12 magi in the circle all charged with you geussed it the mundane side of thing's sort of whent that way humans had humanish god biengs elfs there own & so on....
man was first human recorded being in ME(middle earth)tho it was in fact the cairn(dwarf) people that steped first on the lush soils of ME tho of'cause not without the imortals being there first Sindarin(grey elf) they have in there accounts as did the dwarves untill there break in by the gob's'n'troll's(who where another warring band that had acualy very little to do with sauraman or w/e the main bad guy they where lone wolves untill there defeat at the hands of the fellowship they joined the helm's raiding party's......
im gonna stop typeing b4 i give my self myopia hmph fist mod no lie that i tried and laughed my backside off on was four eye's...never played long enough to lose them tho i tell ya that would be a buggery killer mutie's breathing down ur neck & ur bent over trying to re attach ur speck's priceless..


In Sindarin Arwen's name signifies noble woman (S. 'ar'=noble, 'wen'=maiden). Her second name or epessë, Undómiel means Evenstar (Evening star) (Q. 'undómë'=dusk, 'él'=star) Therefore she is also called Arwen Evenstar. She is also known as the Lady of Imladris and the Lady of Lórien, after the two places she lives, with her father and mother's relatives, respectively...
im still not convinced meh dosnt matter probly dosnt amount to much anyways short scan came up with that if i had that book id just reffer to it was the closest thing to haveing tolkien telling you imo..

[xit]

JENS
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Scandinavian
Danish form of JOHN

JOHN
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Pronounced: JAHN (English) [key]

English form of Iohannes, the Latin form of the Greek name Ιωαννης (Ioannes), itself derived from the Hebrew name יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan) meaning "YAHWEH is gracious". This name owes its popularity to two New Testament characters, both highly revered saints. The first was John the Baptist, a Jewish ascetic who was considered the forerunner of Jesus Christ. The second was the apostle John, who was also supposedly the author of the fourth Gospel and Revelation.
This name was initially more common among Eastern Christians in the Byzantine Empire, but it flourished in Western Europe after the First Crusade. In England it became extremely popular: during the later Middle Ages it was given to approximately a fifth of all English boys.

The name (in various spellings) has been borne by 21 popes and eight Byzantine emperors, as well as rulers of England, France, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Russia and Hungary. It was also borne by the poet John Milton (1608-1674), philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), American founding father and president John Adams (1735-1826), and poet John Keats (1795-1821). Famous bearers of the 20th century include author John Steinbeck (1902-1968), assassinated American president John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), and musician John Lennon (1940-1980).

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And it also means recruit in the Danish army.

[Nearco]

XAVIER

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Spanish (Archaic)

Pronounced: ZAY-vee-ər (English), ZAY-vyər (English), ig-ZAY-vee-ər (English), za-VYAY (French) [key]
Derived from the Basque place name Etxaberri meaning "the new house". This was the surname of the Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552). He was a missionary to India, Japan, China, and other areas in eastern Asia, and he is the patron saint of the Orient and missionaries. His surname has since been adopted as a given name in his honour, chiefly among Catholics.

[Fremen]

KEVIN

Gender: Masculine

Usage: English, Irish, French, German, Dutch, Scandinavian

Pronounced: KEV-in (English)
Anglicized form of the Irish name Caoimhín, derived from the older Irish Cóemgein, composed of the Old Irish elements cóem "kind, gentle, handsome" and gein "birth". Saint Caoimhín established a monastery in Glendalough, Ireland in the 6th century and is the patron saint of Dublin. It became popular in the English-speaking world outside of Ireland in the 20th century.

Pretty interesting site! Thanks for sharing