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I feel less boggled by it, even though I don't know how to pronounce anything in Cajun. I'd pronounce it sort of like TEERN. Makes me think of Theoren (as in Theoren Fleury), so it gives me a major Calgary vibe. I like it!

It seems a tough one. The pronunciation you found and all the ones I can come up with are difficult. I don't know quite what to make of it though it has some visual appeal.

I agree with Anneza it sounds kind of Tolkien-ish. Or maybe even more something from Game of Thrones (like Theon and Tyrion).
I want to read it as "therein" and it also makes me think of tern, the bird.

The pronunciation, as you found out, is difficult, and to me it doesn't sound nice at all.
The spelling makes me think of hillbilly dialect for "theirs." "That ain't your'n, it's theirn."

In a charitable mood, I'd say that it looks like a made-up name that Tolkien rejected.

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In less charitable mode, I'd expect something like his'n, hers'n, theirs'n and I'd wonder with innocent-looking round eyes where the s was.

I don't know... d'you know the language? It looks vaguely Old English-ly to me (but that's only a guess, I really have no idea).

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I read it as "theh-rin" when I first saw it, and then "there-in" when I looked closer (because you can split it into 'their' and 'in') but if it was someone's name and they told me "tih-rin" I wouldn't be surprised or confused or anything.

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Not that any of that'd be much help... sorry.