Law of Alien Names: Difference between revisions
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* ''[[The Inheritance Trilogy]]'' is full of these: the hero's kingdom of Alagaesia, an evil emperor/king named Galbatorix, hideous mooks called Ra'zac, brutish orc-like creatures called Urgals, a beautiful elf named Arya and homeland of the elves Alalea.
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy]]'' gives us Vlhurgs, G'Gugvunts and Silastic Armourfiends of Striterax (whose army is called something even scarier).
* [[Superman
* Despite the name being Japanese in origin, Garamos (translated here as Galamoth) from the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series fits the above naming example almost perfectly.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'''s Romanadvoratrelundar (Romana for short) fits quite well, although her full name is rarely used on screen.
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* Subverted somewhat in ''[[Galactik Football]]'' where all the aliens have names like Warren and Nealy and the heroes have names like D'Jok, Sinedd and MicroIce.
* The ''[[Ringworld]]'' series by Larry Niven has an Engineer race with names like Halrloprillalar, Harkabeeparolyn and Kawaresksenjajok.
** Niven's aliens ''always'' have these sorts of names. The only exception are those whose names are so
** For a real life horrifically huge name, consider LaurencevanCottNiven.
** Niven once collaborated with a few other authors on a shared worldbuilding project. The planet they were creating was originally going to be called Thrassus. Niven thought it sounded too Latin, so he changed the name to Thraxisp.
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* All the [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orsimer]] in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' have names like "Bug gro-Muzgob". Nobody is surprised. Ditto goes for Wood Elves, High Elves, Argonians and Khajiits. The rest of the races are more down-to-earth: Bretons had old Briton names that were replaced in ''[[Oblivion]]'' by French names, Dunmers have Assyrian-sounding names, Imperial names are [[Canis Latinicus]], Nord names are Viking-like, and Redguard names are pretty much normal Anglo-Saxon.
** Some Redguards have names that sound like [[Ghetto Name]]s (Redguards are Tamrielic black people). Try imagining a white person named "Trayvond." It's as difficult as imagining a non-green person named "Burz gro-Kash" or a non-Viking named "Ongar."
** ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' offers an explanation for Orcs. "Burz" is the given name, "Kash" is his home stronghold. Thus it makes about as much sense to them as "Boris from Kash" would to us.
** As of Skyrim,
* In ''[[Neopets]]'', Grundos, which are alien from Neopia, usually have names like this. But that only applies to (most) plot/game characters; 'user'-owned Neopets (Inlcuding Grundos) may have Names like this, or common names with numbers added.
* Parodied in ''[[Questionable Content]]'', when Jimbo the trucker (who also writes bad romance novels) decides to start writing bad fantasy novels.
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