2nd July 2008, 7:43 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:This is exactly why it shouldn't change. Fantasy world names SHOULD be different and mystical sounding!
I can't tell if you are joking or not but I'll go ahead and add my two cents. You keep using the same "exotic name" trope and it'll get old fast. Sometimes it's good to have real names for people. There's nothing wrong with that at all, and it can sometimes sound really nice.
Look at FFIV for example. It's got a lot of regular names for the regular people, like Edward, Gilbert, Cecil, and Rosa. When you find someone from a town that's truly foreign and he's named Tellah, it really sticks out a lot more that this person is not regular.
It's a lot better than every single person you meet having 4 or 5 apostrophes in their names. That's my personal taste, that fancy made up names have their place but should never be over-used.
"Terra" is an interesting name, and at first I didn't like the sound of "Tina" either, but it makes a lot of sense when you realize the mother was from the human world and that world has names like Edgar and Locke.
Not everything has to be set in middle earth.
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