You’ve all heard that one about how you get your porno film name – name of your first pet and the street you lived in – but until the weekend when we made the trek out to Ikea I hadn’t heard the one about how you get your Lord of the Rings name. Caroline told me this one – your first name backwards and the last thing you bought from Ikea.
You gotta love Ikea – the parking, the people, the prams, the queues, the bargain corner, the having everything you need except one piece, the really wanting something only to find it won’t be in for a few months, the hot dogs, the heavy flat-packs that always just fit in the car, the small things that you always buy but never need but you get free parking, the bored kids, the bored other halves, the people who walk against the flow, the instructions, the cardboard, the allen keys, and the names.
We stocked up on some Hemnes on the weekend (and spent many hours putting it together – don’t you love it when you find some pieces leftover and have no idea where they are supposed to go or you have it half built only to find a piece is upside down) and Caroline told me about the Lord of the Rings name – hence the title of this post: Mij Hemnes.
I did a bit of google and found some really great stuff on Ikea and Lord of the Rings – I especially liked the quizzes where you had to guess whether the name was a character from Lord of the Rings or something from Ikea. For instance, which of these are Lord of the Rings and which are Ikea (taken from sporcle.com):
- Faramir
- Freden
- Grundtal
- Boromir
- Molger
- Galdor
- Freda
- Agerum
No doubt many of you will know the answers – nerds!