Grinch, just so you don't feel so bad--the name Hrothgar came before the Icewind Dale novels, too. He was one of the main protagonists in the epic Beowulf, which is, in my opinion, the FIRST D&D story (written around 1000 A.D. in old English, I believe--perhaps earlier)--a very popular name for RPGs, I think; if you've seen the movie "The 13th Warrior" with Antonio Banderas, then you've already met Hrothgar, because the author of that story practically stole the entire Beowulf plot and slightly changes the names of the main characters (including, of course, Hrothgar and Beowulf).
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