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Originally posted by Sever:
The Ecthelion in my game (and stories) is named after the Elf captain of Gondolin in Tolkien's middle earth. He doesn't play a very prominent part but is greatly distinguished by his deeds at the last stand of the House of Hador and, more notably, the fall of Gondolin. It was he who slew and was slain by Gothmog the Balrog, the high-captain of Angband. Denethor's father was undoubtably named after this Ecthelion as was the character in IWD2. It was the cool sound of the name that inspired me to choose it though. Tolkien was quite good at coming up with cool names.
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So that was his name, yes now I remember it, the tale of Gondolin was a great one indeed. Tolkien made up lots of good names...personally I like the sound of Mithrandir which is Gandalf's among the elves in middle earth, or Olorin which is his name among the Maiar. Other cool names I like that Tolkien made up is:
Tśrin Turambar, Elendil, Thorin Oakenshield, Beleg Strongbow, Shadowfax, Nazgūl and so many others...
Oh my, I wished somone would make an awesome RPG game based on the Tolkien books someday...and the game would be set after the end of the Lord of the rings trilogy and you would run around in Middle Earth as an adventurer. Maybe hunting for treasuers in the deeps of Khazad Dum and stuff like that...