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Subject: SF/Fantasy is using up its name space?
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Date: Fri, 8-Jul-83 15:57:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  8 15:57:00 1983
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From:  Larry Seiler 

Actually, Tolkein took many names from Beowolf and other classical sources
(Gandalf, all 13 dwarfs from The Hobbit, and (I believe) many of the names
of heros & supernatural beings in Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion)
(But I think he made up Bilbo and Frodo).  So the "problem" of the name space
running out is quite old.  Perhaps names are like plots - they've all been
used (in one form or another) and writing a story consists of making up new
combinations, not in inventing an entirely new plot or entirely new names.
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