In may last year as a single, I adopted a gorgeous blue cat from a shelter...he was so beautiful (and , it turned out, foul tempered) I named him Gandalf the Grey after the great Wizard in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. My landlady kicked Gandy out and a wonderful friend agreed to keep him for me. Turns out I had to marry said friend to get my cat back! In the next 36 years, we have had many cats...all but one given names from Tolkien. They work great, elegant sounding names that suggest great nicknames. My favorite name may have been Glorfindel, a great Elven warrior in the trilogy, whose nickname was "Glorf." Everyone thought "Glorf" was a great name for a cat. Our last 8 or 9 cats have been Abyssinians, so the elegant names are appropriate. The current crop includes Eowyn (Wynki); Peregrin Took, the Thane (Pippin or just Pip), and Legolas (Li'l Guy.)