Although I'm a Tolkien nut, I'm sober enough not to cite LOTR or Hobbit in my paper on physics. But there seems to be some authors who do it.
LOTR citation in the epigraph:
- astro-ph/0402228
- A model is christened as "Hobbit model".
- astro-ph/0304016
- A software is christened as "Smaug".
- AI/0401009
- Reference to the Entish.
Several years ago, I proposed a name for a parallel-computation software library; My proposal was "Palantir", PALallelized substANTIal Routines. Unfortunately (or fortunately?), it was not employed. Doesn't anyone want to use it?
