(a quick search says it didn't have a name, fyi)
For anyone else curious:
The Moth is the name given to a non-canonical small moth that comes to Gandalf occasionally, forewarning that Eagles are coming, or used by him to summon them.
- LotR wiki
non-canonical is key. It was a device used in the films to convey Gandalf using messengers to rely information. Had the moth (sorry, The Moth) been in the books, it absolutely would have had a name.
What will make you stay up longer instead of sleeping is wondering if it was the same moth. I say no, given the time span between events.
Had the moth (sorry, The Moth) been in the books, it absolutely would have had a name.
This is factually incorrect.
If The Moth had been in the books, it would have like seven names.
"Gandalf called him Message Bringer. And he was called Fuzzy One, and also Window Whacker; and the Elves in their tongue called him Nármelindo, or Flame Lover. But to the Enemy, he was Eagle Bringer, and Gandalf Saver, and the Men of the West called him Arisen Caterpillar."
If The Moth had been in the books, it would have like seven names
Came here to say this, and you said it far more eloquently than I would have, and provided examples! Well done.
Thanks! For the record, nár is the elven word for fire, and melindo is their word for lover 🤓
non-canonical
Yeah, Mothra.
New canon unlocked!
Bill gets an entire section of lore and history but the moth gets nothing!?
Bill can destroy and recreate the world as he sees fit. The moth noticed some eagles and flew kinda high up for a moth.
She was Flixtipix, the cat flosser of Netherwallop. Jurt wrote about her time in the belly of the snurpent of Gor where she first met Gandalf, who in those parts was known as Percy
The grey wizard goes by many names, most of them silly.
let's go with mothy the moth.