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Arwen looks plausibly English, and - ironically - Eowyn does not. So, Arwen would be better, but they've both got a lot of baggage.
Some literary names are more usable than others: nobody finds Belinda, Celia, Vanessa etc particularly literary any more, but I think we'd all associate Harry and Hermione with JK Rowling rather than Shakespeare. Perhaps we tend not to actually read many authors earlier than Jane Austen, whose taste in names still counts as 'excellent and inconspicuous'.
However, common sense should prevail. I know two children named after rather minor characters in a fantasy series - forget the author; someone will know - so the parents clearly loved the names rather than the characters. The boy is Arutha and the girl is Gwynath, and spelling issues haunt them both.
Some literary names are more usable than others: nobody finds Belinda, Celia, Vanessa etc particularly literary any more, but I think we'd all associate Harry and Hermione with JK Rowling rather than Shakespeare. Perhaps we tend not to actually read many authors earlier than Jane Austen, whose taste in names still counts as 'excellent and inconspicuous'.
However, common sense should prevail. I know two children named after rather minor characters in a fantasy series - forget the author; someone will know - so the parents clearly loved the names rather than the characters. The boy is Arutha and the girl is Gwynath, and spelling issues haunt them both.
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