Holly nil, ivy one
AS soon as I heard the name, I had a sense of foreboding. I don’t know any Arwens and, not having read any Tolkien since prep school, I had forgotten Aragorn’s wife. If asked to picture one, I would have visualised not an elf-maiden, but a tiresome Celtic separatist with militant vegan tendencies. I suppose the people who name storms have to come up with something provocative; we would hardly be likely to ‘avoid inessential travel’ for a Julian
