| SFFemmePrincess |
09-19-2010 10:59 PM |
Cross-posted from Newbie Central
My username until now was Rainbowchick07. I have been feeling like my username was really not me and kinda generic for quite some time now. I just kinda came up with it one day out of some desire to garner queer visibility. But as I get older I am finding that I have less of a need to scream queer.
So I did some research and found a name that I liked a whole lot better because it really spoke to me. I am a huge Tolkien geek and so I knew I wanted an Elvish name. That is when I came across Varda.
Varda Elentári is known as "Queen of the stars", she is said to be too beautiful for words; within her face radiates the light of Ilúvatar (God). She resides with her husband Manwë, with whom she shares a complementary power. When they are together, Manwë "sees further than all other eyes, through mist, and through darkness, and over the leagues of the sea" and Varda "hears more clearly than all other ears the sound of voices that cry from east to west". Varda created the stars before the Valar descended into the world, and later with the dews from the vats of Telperion she made the constellations, most significantly the Valacirca, The Sickle of the Valar (The Big Dipper). It is also said that Varda alone is the creator of all light.
In general, Varda seems to represent the goddess of beauty and light in Tolkien's legendarium. (From Wikipedia)
I have always been obsessed with stars and I love the idea of being too beautiful for words. So there we go, the story of my name change...
:moonstars:
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