![]() ![]() But the Silmarils aren’t the very last remnants of Telperion and Laurelin in addition to the Sun (Laurelin’s fruit) and the Moon (Telperion’s flower), there’s Galathilion (the White Tree of Tirion). So if you strip it down to its most basic elements, it’s an elf warrior vs a corrupted Maia: a reflection of Galadriel vs Sauron?Īnd a Silmaril embedded in a tree, well, the most salient quality of the Silmarils is that they capture the light of the original Two Trees. Still pondering the weird mithril tree story in view of all of the actual depth of lore knowledge revealed by interviews of the cast and showrunners, and I’m thinking maybe it’s a holographic plot parable like frex “Cookie Cat” in _Steven Universe_ Unlikely to reconcile either of those initials with all the roots of “stone”, key apostle, great tsar etc.ĮTA: Or there’s just Yekaterina/Carine: Tsarina, Alexandrian scholar/saint, “carina” is Latin for the keel of a ship There don’t seen to be a lot of Russian female names starting w P wrt Pyotr/Pierre, so will prb widen the list to F. sib might therefore be named for fauna vs flora? “Antoinette” is a fun conversion bc of the suggestion of frivolous decadence, but also possible sideways elemental associations from the English neoclassical respelling of “Antony” as “Anthony” based on assumed links w “anthe” flowery things (cf chrysanthemum), and therefore plants as life force, Dylan Thomas’s green fuse etc. But Helene and Anatole both have interesting rabbithole doors between them, wrt Helene <- Helen (optionally of Troy) <- maybe “moon” via S/H doublet of Selene though afaik usually those are Greek vs Latin (frex the roots of English words halide vs saline (salt), helicon vs salicylic (willow), hexagon/heptagon vs sextillion/septillion (six/seven) etc) and Anatole <- Anatolia (location of Troy, also in Tolstoy’s time seat of the Ottoman Empire) <- “sunrise”. Though poking through the etymologies reminds me that most baby name websites are filled with abject nonsense, and that Tolstoy might not have known or cared about any actual derivations in the first place. Frivolously pondering _Great Comet_ (well, I spose _War and Peace_ but with scansion considerations) genderbend names.Īndrey -> Anya (Anna would be more formal though)Īnd from there I’m mostly stuck. ![]()
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