Re: Best firstnames/surnames in fiction?
in reply to a message by John
Surnames:
van Helsing
Frankenstein
Spiderwick
Peverell
From Tolkien I appreciate:
Thorin
Theodred
Aragorn
Gandalf
Radagast
Elrond
Thranduil
Shakespeare:
Titania
Malvolio
Othello
Shylock
Wendy
Evangeline- arguably created by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Huck Finn
Sherlock
Moriarty
Caspian- by C.S. Lewis
Janice- possibly made by Paul Leicester Ford for his novel 'Janice Meredith' (1899)
Dorian Gray- The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) by Oscar Wilde
Elmira- by the French playwright Molière in 'Tartuffe' (1664)
Amaryllis- from Virgil's "Eclogues'
Aramis- The Three Musketeers
Lucinda- 'Don Quixote' (1605)
van Helsing
Frankenstein
Spiderwick
Peverell
From Tolkien I appreciate:
Thorin
Theodred
Aragorn
Gandalf
Radagast
Elrond
Thranduil
Shakespeare:
Titania
Malvolio
Othello
Shylock
Wendy
Evangeline- arguably created by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Huck Finn
Sherlock
Moriarty
Caspian- by C.S. Lewis
Janice- possibly made by Paul Leicester Ford for his novel 'Janice Meredith' (1899)
Dorian Gray- The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) by Oscar Wilde
Elmira- by the French playwright Molière in 'Tartuffe' (1664)
Amaryllis- from Virgil's "Eclogues'
Aramis- The Three Musketeers
Lucinda- 'Don Quixote' (1605)