Arwyn, our cat and . . .

So when we picked Arwyn up from the SPCA last January, she came with her name already attached. Rather than spend hours poring over names in literature and agonizing over a new name, we kept the one she had. Our searches online showed “Arwyn” to be a variation on “Arwen,” the character from The Lord of the Rings. Possibly a bit cheesy, but we like the books, so everything seemed cool.

But when Heidi recently asked me about the name, Sydney searched again, and we learned that Arwyn is also the name of a comic book character. To quote Wikipedia, “Arwyn is a gorgeous woman with shoulder-length blond hair. She likes to wear green and gold clothing but, because she is an archer, she wears little armor. She prefers not to fight close up though she can use a sword” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arwyn).

Right.

~Erin