Character Naming

As an Author naming your Character is an important step right after coming up with the plot. I am here to help you choose the right character name for you and your story.

Make sure your character name is Genre Appropriate. Make sure if it's a Historical Fiction novel or takes place in a real time period that the name was used then. Or if it's a fictionalized place then you can be as creative as you wish.

Just have fun with naming your character. It is after all your story.



Friday, February 24, 2012

Arwen

Meaning: (Fair, Fine, Muse, Royal, Maiden, Variant of Arwyn. Literary: an elf maiden in Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings", where in the elven language, Arwen means "noble woman".)

Origin: (Welsh, English)

Pronunciation:(ARR-WIN Arr-sounds like car. Win-Sounds like fin, Are-wen)

Gender: Female

I was looking up a name I will soon post and I saw this name then I realized it was the elf princess's name in Lord of the Rings. Liv Tyler played Arwen in the movies. Again seeing as this is a name in a famous novel it could be seen that you named you character after Tolkien's character. Of course you can change the spelling or just leave it. I wanted to add this because in the past I didn't much like this name but now I haven't heard it in a while I see it is a very beautiful name. A scene in LOTR actually inspired me to write my series I've been working on since I was like 17 yrs old.

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I try to have the most accurate Meanings, Origin and Pronunciations for the names on this blog. It is best though to do research into the names you decide to use for your characters as there can be errors on my blog. Or meanings, origins, and pronunciations I have not seen thus not been able to add to this blog.





Try some of the leading Baby Name Sites and Baby Name or Character Naming books as well.


The baby name sites below are where I collect many of the Names, Origins, and Pronunciations I use on this blog.

Baby Names Sites:

http://www.thinkbabynames.com
http://www.babynamewizard.com
http://www.behindthename.com
http://www.babynamespedia.com