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[Opinions] Ottoline & Arwen

by Canielle

10/8/2023, 9:38 AM

This weekend I found a list of names for characters I wrote around the age of 12. The names that stood out most for me were Ottoline and Arwen. I was reading Lord Of The Rings around that time which explains Arwen but I don’t know where I got Ottoline from. Anyway WDYT of Arwen and Ottoline?

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#Arwen #Ottoline

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- Dracotorix +1

10/8/2023, 7:14 PM

I like Arwen and would use it IRL, with the nickname Ari.

Ottoline is interesting, as a character it sounds like it would be somebody's eccentric rich aunt.
(Is the "line" supposed to be sound more French (leen) or German (lee-nə)? My instinct is to say "leen" but I'm not sure.)

- Canielle

10/8/2023, 7:18 PM

My instinct would be to say leen too.

- cassilda in carcosa

10/8/2023, 3:15 PM

I think they're both cool but very different. Ottoline is neat, it's not pretty or conventional but it's clunkily and awkwardly fading elegance and I can respect that. Arwen is very pretty and very much inescapably Tolkien. Anwen is a nice alternative that I would use in a heartbeat if I had any Welsh heritage at all.

- Kerilyntaryn21

10/8/2023, 11:06 AM

dont like them at all

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