Re: Tel'aran'rhiod - how the $#@! did RJ come up with that name?
dacole Send a noteboard - 01/05/2012 12:11:14 AM
Well I'd much rather have long interesting names that provide color to the world than simple ones that are easy to pronounce and as one who reads prince of nothing I'm surprised that's not how you feel. I mean nothing about that book is simple, by design (which is why it is the best fantasy series in the past 100 years).
This has bugged me for a great number of years. How the hell do you pronounce Tel'aran'rhiod? (Yes, I know there is a glossary. Just let me rant for a minute). For a word that's used so much in the series, you would think RJ would come up with something a little easier on the average reader. Me and my brother jokingly call it "tell an android." Of course, that's stuck in my head now and it really jolts me out of the books when I read it.
Look, I get it, fantasy authors like to be cool and come up with their own languages and give their characters weird ass names. Hell, I can't even begin to pronounce half the names in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series. But, seriously, it has to stop somewhere. Tel'aran'rhiod? Really? Not only is that hard to pronounce in your head, it's too long and...bulky? I wonder is RJ had a cut and paste option that inserted this word. </rant>
For my own fantasy book, I came up with a good name for my world that's in keeping with the authors in the fantasy genre. It's called "Zylokgoodluckpronouncingthisfuckingwordzltpke."
Look, I get it, fantasy authors like to be cool and come up with their own languages and give their characters weird ass names. Hell, I can't even begin to pronounce half the names in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series. But, seriously, it has to stop somewhere. Tel'aran'rhiod? Really? Not only is that hard to pronounce in your head, it's too long and...bulky? I wonder is RJ had a cut and paste option that inserted this word. </rant>
For my own fantasy book, I came up with a good name for my world that's in keeping with the authors in the fantasy genre. It's called "Zylokgoodluckpronouncingthisfuckingwordzltpke."
Tel'aran'rhiod - how the $#@! did RJ come up with that name?
- 30/04/2012 10:05:23 PM
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Re: Tel'aran'rhiod - how the $#@! did RJ come up with that name?
- 01/05/2012 12:11:14 AM
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Celtic mythology - formed after the name of a moon goddess, means The Silver Wheel *NM*
- 01/05/2012 03:15:41 AM
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This rant is Justified. WOT snobs might think you're being unreasonable.
- 01/05/2012 05:11:11 AM
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