CILU is my nickname since I was 11. It comes from my name, Marius Bancila. In the 5th grade we where studing euglena vidiris, an unicellular organism, that uses these cilia (which in Romanian are called CIL, singular) to move. Somebody realized that it was part of my name, and called me CILU, which is some sort of THE CIL(IA). Soon, everybody start calling me like this, and I liked it, and so I remained known until I went to college. Now, only few people call me like this, but I still use my nickname for IDs.

My username is from a book (can't remember the name though) by JR Tolkein. (sp?)
It's from Silmarillion, my favorite book. J.R.R. Tolkien, indeed.
Melian was the name of a Maia who served both Vána and Estë; she dwelt long in Lórien, tending the trees that flower in the gardens of Irmo, ere she came to Middle-earth. Nightingales sang about her wherever she went.
Melian was a Maia, of the race of the Valar. She dwelt in the gardens of Lórien, and among all his people there were none more beautiful than Melian, nor more wise, nor more skilled in songs of enchantment. It is told that the Valar would leave their works, and the birds of Valinor their mirth, that the bells of Valmar were silent and the fountains ceased to flow, when at the mingling of the lights Melian sang in Lórien. Nightingales went always with her, and she taught them their song; and she loved the deep shadows of the great trees. She was akin before the World was made to Yavanna herself; and in that time when the Quendi awoke beside the waters of Cuiviénen she departed from Valinor and came to the Hither Lands, and there she filled the silence of Middle-earth before the dawn with her voice and the voices of her birds.
I just LOVE this book.