Name Generator Fun!

So this week’s fantasy name generator offering is my new WoW name generator. World of Warcraft is the biggest and longest running MMORPG. When you create your character, there are twelve different World of Warcraft races you can choose from: Worgen (wolf-like beasts), Draenei (alien warriors), Dwarves, Gnomes, Humans, Night Elves, Goblins, Blood Elves, Orcs, Tauren (bull-like beasts), Trolls, and Forsaken (undead humans).

I’ve written the WoW name generator so that you can create different types of male or female WoW names with different themes for each race. Many of the WoW name generators out there just create Medieval sounding WoW names - but instead, I’ve tried to add a bit of character to each different race, whilst staying within the World of Warcraft naming policies. Because there are so many (thousands!) of different name combinations, the results are interesting and variable. I plan to keep adding new names to the word lists to generate even more combinations of WoW names.

My latest project in my quest for fantasy name generator world domination is the elf name generator. It’s based on the Sindarin language that J.R.R. Tolkien created for his elves in contemporary middle earth in The Lord of the Rings.

It took me ages to write because Sindarin is a very complicated language with lots of quirks and has many different naming conventions, based on gender and age. There are a few elf name generators around already, but I can’t find one that’s both pure Sindarin, and that gives the option to create random elf names, andelf names based on your own name.

I used the Sindarin elf name lists on realelvish.net, along with a few other sources of Sindarin to create the elf name tables. There are over 800 different prefixes alone, and that’s before we even get onto the complicated gender/age/relationship-based name suffixes!

I confidently assumed I could write the elf name generator in a couple of days - instead it took me a couple of weeks! I hope the result will be acceptable to all of the die-hard Sindarin LOTR enthusiasts out there!

My new name generator site is live! I haven’t quite finished it yet, there’s still some design and testing to do.

The reason for this? I’ve created so many name generators that they’re taking over my site. I think I need a bit of separation between the crazy-meme-generator me and the writer me, so I’ve decided to move them onto their own name generator site. I hope they will be happy there.