People should read stuff beyond Tolkien. There are even better old-school fantasy/science fiction vocabularies out there. Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun has enough names for a century of startups. Or here is a 600 page list of Jack Vance names:
Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison17 hours ago
It's going to be tough for startups when all the Lord of the Rings names are taken and the only thing left is something like Bombadil AI.
I would just love to see startups named products after Vance’s spells (the ones that weren’t stolen by Gygax for D&D): The Omnipotent Sphere The Expansible Egg Charm of Brachial Fortitude or Gilgalad's Instantaneous Galvanic Thrust
Also, why no Terry Pratchett names? One of the best namers of characters there ever was (along with Dickens and Rowling).
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