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Numenorian Surnames
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Scott55
2020-12-07 07:14:23 UTC
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Is there a source of Numenorian surnames? It strikes me as incredible that the Prince of Dol Amroth doesn't seem to have a surname. Many of the nobles in the LotR series don't have them. Thanks for any help!
Thomas Koenig
2020-12-07 10:03:11 UTC
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Post by Scott55
Is there a source of Numenorian surnames? It strikes me as
incredible that the Prince of Dol Amroth doesn't seem to have
a surname. Many of the nobles in the LotR series don't have
them. Thanks for any help!
I think they mostly use patronymics. Aragorn, son of Arathorn, ...
Julian Bradfield
2020-12-07 14:08:17 UTC
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Post by Scott55
Is there a source of Numenorian surnames? It strikes me as incredible that the Prince of Dol Amroth doesn't seem to have a surname. Many of the nobles in the LotR series don't have them. Thanks for any help!
Why would they have surnames? Surnames are mostly a relatively recent
invention (excepting China and Rome and a few others), and none of the
societies on which the Numenoreans and Gondorians were based had
surnames. As for nobility, even today, royalty and nobility don't use
surnames, though they have them.
(The Heisei Emperor of Japan was a marine biologist - on the papers he
published while Emperor, he appears as just "Akihito".)

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