On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:11 PM, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:
Steve Harris wrote:
But I still haven't the foggiest where the name TunFaire comes from.
Glen told me that most of the names in his books (not just Garrett) come from Interstate exit signs - such as "the Imperial Kimmswick", the ship Garrett was stationed on in the Marines, is a pair of small towns south of St. Louis; Nooney Krombach, the long-ago evil dwarf wizard from Dread Brass Shadows, is actually a Real Estate company in St. Louis. I've spotted more and keep forgetting them.
But my favorite origin is that of the part of the name of the dead language Uchi-Telle (or is it Telle-Uchi?) from the Black Company: At one of the entrances to the Highway 40 (one of the two E-W freeway cutting through the area) is a large sign on a tire shop, displaying "Telle Tires". Steve/Stacey