User blog:LOTRMod/Name of Rhúdel Capital City

Hello everyone,

The following is copied from the mod's Facebook Page.

Time for another poll.

We are having trouble deciding on a name for the Easterling capital city waypoint.

The name Mistrand is popular among the LOTR community, so it would be the obvious choice, but many of us on the team don't think it would be fitting. Why not? There is the matter that it doesn't sound very 'Easterlingish', but also that Tolkien's names almost always have some substantial meaning behind them. And we have always thus far invented our own non-canon names for the mod.

Some alternative names we have come up with follow the pattern of "Khan" + [Sindarin stuff], imagining that Elves/Gondor/whoever else would hear of the Khan and incorporate that word into a name in their language. This seems like a nice way to integrate an important name into Middle-earth but also have it sound foreign and Easterlingish.

And there are some more alternative names which don't have any meaning in Elvish, but just seem to sound right.

Please vote for which names you think would fit! You can choose multiple options, but do be selective.

Also, like before, we aren't automatically going to choose whichever option gets the most votes, and we would welcome additional suggestions, and well-reasoned arguments in the comment section.

http://www.strawpoll.me/12296541