Hello! My first post here so my apologies, language is not my specialty but I'm doing my best! :) I'm currently working on the name of a character and I've been reviewing the suffixes and dictionaries. There don't seem to be a lot of elvish words actually relating to magic, I presume due to their worldview of magic as an ordinary skill. I did find "núlë" meaning "dark magic" or "sorcery" which would work for the character as opposed to "culu". I was wondering, to maintain the meaning (especially if I'm using the character's name in places that might not give me full access to accents) how should I structure the name? My first go to would be "Núlion" as opposed to flat-out going with "Núlëion" but I'm not 100% on how naming conventions work when you're looking at that many vowels in a row and I wouldn't want to make a name that's just impossible for a native English speaker to say... Also with that, what effect would adding a second "L" have? So "Núllion"?
My second question is that I know "-ion" is usually "son of" and "-iel" is usually "daughter of" but (and this might be a bit of a difficult question) how deeply baked in to the suffixes is the gendering? I love the suffix "-iel" or "-ael" in correlation with the Hebrew angelic connotations but "-ael" isn't a suffix in Quenya and "-iel" is listed as "daughter of". My character is male and I don't want to give him an overwhelmingly female gendered name (I very much support de-gendering names but as an example naming a boy most "-a" names like Suzanna or Linda in English would currently be a bit far outside of the societal range). Are there any male names that utilize "-iel" as a suffix or connotation that it could be used in a gender-nuetral way e.g. "child of"? If so, my following idea would be "Núliel" or "Núlliel" (if, of course, the ë can be dropped or second L added).
Anyone a bit smarter than I have any thoughts on that or any alternate suggestions that could work well besides núlë?
Thank you so much!