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[lotesse]

Tagged by emei, here's how it goes: Explain the name you've chosen for your LJ. When finished, tag the same number of people as there are letters in your name, so that they will have to explain themselves as well.

I started using "Lotesse" back on the www.theonering.com messageboards when I was, what? twelve? Something like that. One of my favorite names in LotR was, at the time, Lothiriel. She's a bit character, the princess of Dol Amroth who, I think, ends up marrying Eomer. But that name was taken, so I tried switching it to the other Elvish language. "Lothiriel" means "flower-maid" in Sindarin, but I didn't like how it sounded when translated into Quenya. I stumbled on "Lotesse", which in Quenya means "in flower" and is the name of the fifth month of the year. I liked the sound of it, it was close to Lothiriel, and my birthday is in May. And it was available. So I went with that.

Someone else had "Lotesse" when I went for my eljay, so I played around with it and got "lotesseflower." I like how that looks on the screen, and the English bit is sort of a translation of the Elvish part. They just felt like they went together. And lo, so has it been these many years.

I'm not tagging, because there are too damn many letters in my name, but everyone should play along on this one. It's fun finding out why people name themselves what they do.

Comments

[rose-sous-globe.livejournal.com]

rose_sous_globe comes from The Little Prince. The flower, the little twit, demanded to be stuck under a glass globe every night to protect her from the tigers that quite obviously did not live on the planet. Idunno, I was feeling sheltered at the time, and I like French things. ^^

[lotesse]

I never connected it with that! but it really does fit you perfectly, honey. The image is just right.

[emei.livejournal.com]

I always thought of Lotus flowers when I saw your name. But the Lotr story behind it is interesting; Tolkien's names are very very beautiful, I think.

[lotesse]

I like the Lotus thing! But yeah, Tolkien's linguistic sensibility is gorgeous. I've never understood the people who would rather learn Klingon than Elvish--Elvish is actually pretty, so it's not a total waste of time. :)