[Aredhel]

Well, technically and from a purely historic standpoint, you should be able to! It's like the indians naming their children after the first thing the father sees when he leaves the tent...Running Deer or Red Flame...it's tradition and it's wonderful, actually! It means something to them!!

To me, as long as it's in character and not "out there" or vulgar, surnames should be able to do historical/racial oriented surnames. And, if you look at some russian or other complicated language words, you'd never believe they're words, either! There's a fine line!!

I'm definately for a STRONG rule that is inforced!

OH...and about things like Major and such....no. I'm totally against that! IF there should happen to be events where the GMs award certain titles as rewards for defeating armies or such, I would welcome that. Even then, titles should never be names!! Given as an actual title before the name, yeah! But only as a special deal! (ugh....morning...did that make sense??)