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I'm bad with names. Like really bad. People's names I can sort of cope with, but naming countries or languages or species or whatever, I'm bad at it. Gollums are at the moment called gollums because, well, that's what they are. What else can I call them? Slinking, gangling, smelly grouchy things? I think it's because I believe in calling things what they are. Glamdring=Foehammer=Gandalf kicking all sort of ass. Foehammer is a perfectly good name for a sword. I had a teacher once who named her rapier Etienne. Last time I checked, Etienne was some French pouf's name. Metaphorically, it's an okay name for a Schlager, being an overly-whippy swishypoke, but it just never seemed right to me. Villainpricker or Blackguard Bleeder or something, that's what you call rapiers. Etienne sounds like someone you would take to an existential film festival. So what the hell do I call these things in the dark corners of my mind that are also other things?

I know what I could call them, but I just don't want to think about that right now.