In the Harry Potter series, where did Tom Riddle get the name Voldemort?

psufreak

It's an anagram Tom Marvolo Riddle becomes I am Lord Voldemort Jul 23 07, 12:12 AM

kaung30

It is an anagram, what a very witty way to name Voldemort. That's a genius. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voldemort Jul 23 07, 8:45 AM

lilbuggie07

Voldemort's given name is Tom Marvolo Riddle. In the second book it is established that the appellation "Lord Voldemort" is derived from an anagram of his name: TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE ~ I AM LORD VOLDEMORT. This is also a play on words, as his name, Tom Marvolo Riddle, is also itself a riddle. In translated versions of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Voldemort's original name is changed to accommodate the anagram. In the Polish edition, however, translator Andrzej Polkowski decided not to make any changes, presumably because of the difficulty of translating the anagram into a meaningful sentence. In the Portuguese edition (as distinct from the Brazilian edition), the name was similarly left untranslated. The following table gives a comprehensive lists of the various translations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voldemort#Name_and_its_meaning Jul 23 07, 2:18 PM