Something I'm kind of struggling to wrap my head around. Is there a way for multiple word given names to work in English? Have you ever seen it done well? Just from a grammatical standpoint, it seems very difficult to construct sentences around a character with a name that is made up of multiple normal english words.
I don't even have any examples of such names yet because while I have the concept of a world in which names are supposed to be very directly and unambiguously meaningful, I haven't come up with one yet that doesn't completely fail a basic "Hello, my name is" test
Basically, how do I break English name rules without it sounding 110% fucked up?
There is a long history of indigenous names translated into English as phrases. Red Jacket, Dances with Wolves (lmao) etc.
Yeah, this is exactly the kind of thing I'm thinking of, but I guess there's a fine line between "valid name" and "word salad" and there aren't necessarily any hard rules you can pin down about which side a name is going to fall on. Or at least, that I can pin down. Maybe if I resurrected Tolkien he could figure it out for me, but I'm only a novice juche necromancer and I still struggle with rats.