Thorin

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I saw the hobbit and thought as a standalone name this is nice - unusual, sounds nice, looks nice written down. What does everyone else think?

It will be okay as long as his father is called Thrain and his grandfather is called Thror.

If you are going for fictional dwarfs then Tyrion is nice

If you are going for fictional dwarfs then Tyrion is nice

I don't like it.

One of my best friends named her DS Torin 17 years ago. It's a great name. To date, not one person has questioned it.

Unless you live in Middle Earth directly, please go for it.

How would you pronounce it again Gruff?

People give their kids much more ridiculous names than Thorin every single day

People will laugh. I'm of the hippy generation that called their children Frodo, Aragorn etc. Some friends of ours did - we didn't. Like Zowie Bowie they changed their names as soon as they could.

There are so many lovely real names why open your DC to the possibility of teasing?

Like others have said, I know a Scottish Torin and it is a much nicer and less Dwarfey name :o

In my head I think you'd need to be built like a Viking to carry off Thorin for some reason - maybe it's to counteract The Hobbit-ness of it.

Also as others have said, Torin or Torrin is a well-established, if fairly uncommon, Scottish name.
Strongly reminiscent of Gaelic Torr = little hill. Also probably has long-ago origins in Viking-occupied Scotland and links to Norse god Thor. Scottish names based on this often lose the 'h' after the initial 't', for example Viking 'Thorkill' = modern Scottish 'Torquil'.

Thorin = 20th cent made-up name for magical creature. The way that Tolkein and other fantasy writers 'pick-and-mix' from past mythologies always makes me feel rather uneasy. But that is simply my view, and we all have different opinions/feelings ...

I hate when people name their kids after characters from fantasy books.

Yes, it is a nice name but no, you shouldn't use it for a real child.

Torin is so much better!

hmm.
tbh, it's the sort of name that makes me crave hearing someone discuss how much they like the names Richard, John or Edward.

I knew some people who named their son Aslan ... thing is, it was a perfectly normal name in the part of the world they came from. I don't think they realised that living in the UK people would associate it with fiction!

Thorin sounds like it should be a real name somewhere - so, if you can find out where and emigrate, you'd be ok.

OP you would also be naming him after a character in a book that is not particularly pleasant, he is not the dashing hero of the film - more a grumpy, arrogant and somewhat snobbish dwarf king!

I'm not pregnant by the way so there is no child about to have this name hung on him. I don't need to wake up. I just thought I'd get people's opinions on it as I like names and particularly liked the sound and look of this one.

But I am glad I'm not the only one who likes it. I think it's nice to see different names up for discussion rather than the same old ones all the time.

idn't there a bbc correspondent torin (sp) douglas? I always quite liked it.

Friend just named their baby daughter Arwen

Arwen is a legit name of Welsh origin.

Still wouldn't though. People would assume LOTR fanparents.

Tyrion is also Welsh, usually spelt Tirion and is a girls name. Game of Thrones will kill that names usage dead though, for girls at least.