Sep-18-2010, 08:06 PM (UTC)
Well, with Fionavar the case is likely that the author wanted to use something Swedish but didn't bother to find out the meaning. (The world in the books is a mixture of other fantasy worlds and ancient legends.) With GRRM... I want to believe he knew what he was doing (so maybe it is a homage to Tolkien)... but even so it didn't work for me because it doesn't quite fit.
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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