Ali and I have spent ages thinking about a name for
the new girl. Céline means "heavenly" so we have been looking at
astrological names. We came up with a few from various baby name websites,
quite liked Seren which is star in Welsh, or Izarra, star in Basque and
Synnove, which is Anglo Saxon for gift of the sun. We looked at the names of actual stars, there
are a few like Chara, Merope or Heka that are nice. But none of these was quite
right.
So we went back to the old favourite, Tolkien. Quite
like the word Isil or Ithil, which means moon in Elvish. But in the end we
settled for Elentári, one of the names of Varda, a Middle Earth deity. It means
"Star Queen" in Elvish, Tolkien wrote that 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......
And they have a similar hairstyle ;-)
