You know, I’d completely and utterly forgotten that this site is probably highly googlable, and I realized, to my utter horror today, that anyone looking for my Quenya -epesse- cilmesse [agh, didn’t catch that] on said search engine lands results that consist almost entirely of my entries on this site. (Oh right, story behind my horror—my ex knows my Quenya name from another site and if ever he got curious as to what it meant he would immediately find me here)

I was this close to deleting my account but decided instead to change my user name here to Tindómiel (why does 43T hate special characters???) and pray the googlybots disseminate that instead of the one that starts with an “m”.

I hadn’t expected it to be a rare name. Then again, all attested examples of the -mir ending are for male names (not that this bothers me in the least) and most guys would prefer something a little more gallant than “muina” (hidden, secret) to tack onto the front of that. But if there were ever a succinct way to sum me up, “hidden jewel” has to be it.