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I found that when I was reading a collection of Grimm's fairytales — just translated, not the bowdlerized Disney versions — a whole bunch of them have nameless characters. The King, The Queen, The ...
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2019-12-13T12:00:13Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T02:37:26Z (over 4 years ago)
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I found that when I was reading a collection of Grimm's fairytales — just translated, not the bowdlerized Disney versions — a whole bunch of them have nameless characters. The King, The Queen, The Prince; the baker's daughter, the tailor's apprentice. Puss in Boots is the only character with a name in his story; the rest are the miller's son, the king, his daughter, and the ogre. (The Marquis is a title which Puss invents.) And all those have lasted for hundreds of years. As long as the reader can keep the characters straight, I say go for it. ETA I forgot that Larry Niven's [Kzin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kzin#Naming_convention) race don't have names at birth; they have to earn them.
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2012-12-18T23:56:11Z (over 11 years ago)
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