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Posted by: bender ( )
Date: August 30, 2015 01:18AM
How JS may have gotten the names for characters in the Book of Mormon

The recent thread on Napoleon Dynamite made me remember this. After making Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, Jared Hess made a movie called Gentlemen Broncos. It wasn't nearly as successful as his first two movies, but it had a scene that stood out to me, and made me wonder if he was thinking about the Book of Mormon when he wrote it.

The movie is about young sci fi fans and wanna be authors who go to a writers camp. The camp is taught by a famous sci fi author who gives them tips. In this one scene he teaches them how to come up with names for characters and how to make those names better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haT1yOrEtRs
They even made one of the movies trailer based around that scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdpFpfIBkXc

That scene totally made me think of the names in the Book of Mormon. And the little differences between them. You could almost picture Joseph Smith like this author putting on several endings to different names, in order to get even more names and make them sound cooler.
Amaleki-Amalickiah
Ammon-Ammoron
Corianton-Coriantor-Coriantum-Coriantumr
Helam-Helaman
Kish-Kishkumen-Kumen
Laman-Lamoni
Mormon-Moron-Moroni-Moronihah
Nephi-Nephihah
Zerahemla-Zerahemnah
And many other names of people and places in the book.

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Posted by: cpete ( )
Date: August 30, 2015 02:03AM
Pulled them out of a hat (n/t)


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Posted by: verilyverily ( )
Date: August 30, 2015 02:12AM
Re: How JS may have gotten the names for characters in the Book of Mormon

Ammoron - my favorite - pronounced A MORON
almost as good as MORON-I

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Posted by: Shiz head ( )
Date: August 30, 2015 04:54AM
Re: How JS may have gotten the names for characters in the Book of Mormon

Trajinus everytime. Anything else is just not...believable.

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