It's funny how much controversy this action has brought up. Personally, I think Lilliandil is a very beautiful name that rolls easily off the tongue (I tend to prefer names that do that
). If you say it over and over too many times, it does start to sound like Lillian + dill, but then again, anything said over and over starts to sound weird after a while
.
I also must say that I'm very glad Doug Gresham was the one to name her. In Jack's absence, he is, in my opinion,
the authority on Narnia matters. He knew Jack personally and has the best idea as to the sort of things Jack would have wanted. I'm very pleased he was the one to name her.
On the subject of whether RD should have even been named at all, I am on the fence. I can see the logic behind giving her a name, since leaving her unnamed in a major motion picture makes no sense at all. But I can also see why a lot of people would have preferred she remained unnamed, since that is the way Jack wrote it and it added to her "mysteriousness"
. But I think C.S. Lewis left her unnamed for another reason. I think it is partially because he felt that her name was sacred and that she was a sacred individual
. And to me, that is reason enough.
Btw, for those of you that don't like "Lilliandil", just be glad it isn't "Prunaprisma"!!