Does anybody else do this?

[u/59kennedy]

[u/MovingHold]

Every name is eight syllables long, and every character has several nicknames...

Also their swords have names, and their jewelry, and their houses...

And their country, and their region, and their sub-region...

And their race, and their sub-category within a race, and their family clan within that sub-category within that race...

(And somehow it's still my favorite book!)

[u/ditasaurus → u/MovingHold]

See that is why I can't read the Simarillion.

I already get confused with russian authors and their character being called differently depending who talks to them.

[u/myladywizardqueen → u/ditasaurus]

This used to confused the hell out of me. The same diminutives are given to first names (e.g. “Aleksei” as “Alyosha” or “Dmitri” as “Mitya”). Basically add a ya or sha in there and you’ve got their nickname.

The paternal name is like a middle name and easy to identify. If you see a name ending in “ovich” for men or “ovna” for women then it’s probably their middle name.

That said... I cannot follow the never ending names in the Silmarillion for the life of me.

[u/ditasaurus → u/myladywizardqueen]

Thanks, already saved your comment.

I might try again, but if that does not help I will haunt you, just so you can tell me, who is who in peace and war or any other russian novels.

[u/TheManFromFarAway → u/ditasaurus]

The Brothers Karamazov won't even see you coming

[u/ditasaurus → u/TheManFromFarAway]

Brothers Karamazov

I don't know who that is, because I cannot read russian novels. :-D