Wow, that's so cool. Long black hair, you say? Reminds me of Meridith from that old drawing you had on your sig. And yeah, they do remind me of greek. Be sure to tell me if you have anything done or need anything evaluated. I'll do so, happily.
Many of the characters and people in my story have long dark hair, men and women. It seems more in line with the old world of the Greeks, and the Middle-East - which is essentially the type of area where most of my stories take place in - than lighter coloured hair. Though I suppose Arendain IS from the North. But as it is, many of my influences are from those regions: for example, I do not know which country, city-state, or kingdom yet, but one will certainly have two hereditary kings, a facinating situation that the Spartans had.
Oh, and by the way, just for interests sake (well, it interests me) it cannot be spelled Meridith. Two reasons, one being pronounciation, and the other grammatical. Meridith would, as all the i's are long for me, be pronounced Meh-reed-eeth, whereas the way I say it is Meh-reed-eth. And secondly, as far as grammar goes... You see, the ith ending dentotes a shift from a word that is in basic form an adjective to a noun. For example, take 'aren', which is 'swift'. Thus 'swiftness' would be 'arenith'. The opposite to this is more common, when nouns become adjectives, and is denoted by the et ending. A spin-off of this is the eth ending for names, which essentially implies the adjective as being descriptive of them. Since the word 'merid', or 'beauty', is a noun, the only conceivable way of using 'ith' on it is to first make it an adjective, 'meridet' (beautiful), then revert it back with 'meridetith'... though that is extremely reduntant. Anyway, though, the name Merideth, as I spell it, essentially denotes either 'one of beauty' or, as an example of the thing I spoke of earlier, simply 'beautiful one'. There are other forms of the name, though, such as Meridirė, and Meridina, though those two are regionalities where there is a naming destinction between when women are unmarried (irė) and married (ina). As a side-note, Merideth was originally spelled Meredith, as in the actual spelling of the name, but on my brothers suggestion changed it. In that form, mered meant 'glory' (and still does), but ith was an adjectival form, and made the name mean 'glorious'.
Umm... did you catch all that? I honestly had no idea I could write that much on such a mundane little thing. I think I've thought through that stuff a little too much...
Anyway, as for evaluating something... I'd appreciate that, and some day I will send you my whole first chapter to look at. But I honestly think I should not do that until I've looked at your story you were posting at Chronicles, which I still haven't done. Wouldn't exactly be fair.
