| Re: Original, pronounceable names. Dellombro- I like this name. It has a weight about it.
In order to have easily pronounced names, you have to stick with sounds and spellings that are common to English, which most of that list looks like it does. My pet peeve is a lot of apostrophes, umlauts and accent marks, as well as sounds that are too easily identified with existing cultures, or Tolkien. That and there are too many one-syllable names in fantasy stories. I have an unofficial three-syllable rule when I'm making up names- it gives them weight and the possibility of multiple nicknames.
Spelling sounds that are beautiful but a little more unusual can be difficult. I wish a lot of books would put in pronounciation guides, as awkward as they can be. It must be hard for the authors to hear their names mispronounced. |