name pirates/bad names

[Galoren, Keeper and Spinner]

Some wanker stole the name Rhavaniel on the "other" server. I went there to reserve it out of general principal, as she has been using it since A2. And as far as we can tell, it is an original name she came up with based on some linguistic formula. It is possible someone did the same research, and I've seen Rhavaniel used on one other music board doing some posting. Possible I guess. But I am just assuming someone saw her in one of the test phases, was wholly unoriginal, and swiped the name. Argh!

And speaking of names. I don't mind names like Joe the Hobbit, Bob the dwarf. I understand not everyone is as nuts as I am about linguistics and historical research. Especially if the person is a good player and friendly. But c'mon Hamburgular the Hobbit (ok, that was kind of funny)? Ipod the Dwarf? Haaldir? Can't we grief these people. And to think - this is the chance to RESERVE names for characters before everyone else gets on to LOTRO. And Ipod is what people could come up with? Does anyone agree with me that at this point these people are intentionally moronic to tee off RPer? Were their WoW PVP servers down for an hour?

Rant over.

[Zhongo Fuzzyfutt]

now that is what this forum is for !

[yunkor]

Some names make me cringe and laugh at the same time

like Earocorn
or I've always liked Legomyegolass
at least the first time I saw it

Other names I just hate outright

like Sepheroth

some names like Ringo are sinister: they are annoying yet match the naming convention

I only ever reported one name in lotro, the guild LXIX the days after the free trial, since I figured that went against the no sexual content rule.

My best friend IRL and his friends all pick moronic names, even in PnP DnD. Not really griefers, just .. to them it's being creative to take a name and spell it differently. One guy is a very successful manager, his char is Sifilas. /shrug

[melodar]

I seen a Drizzt the other day ><....this isn't forgotten realms...It's MIDDLE EARTH!!!

[Zhongo Fuzzyfutt]

Ghurta will be typing in this thread for the next week...I believe she saw a Tacomatic?

[yunkor]

MMmmmm tacomatic

[Mirabell]

It was Tacomaster actually, and his pet bear was named Salsa. I see SOO many stupid and unoriginal names farming in Cirith Nur, but Tacomaster stood out on a high pedistal of shame.

[yunkor]

I saw one loremaster who's bear was named MonsterMagnet.
I also saw people who figured out how to put capital letters in the middle of their names, not just their pet's names. Like one is named RenameFaith, which I guess is some idiotic protest about being forced to rename themself, or something.