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Doctor Who question
I hope there are some Doctor Who fans on my friends page who may be able to answer this.

A friend of mine is writing Doctor Who fanfiction. She refers to him as "time lord" in some passages, but was unsure as to whether the phrase "time lord" should be capitalised or not.

She thinks that as he is referred to as a time lord, that means that it is not an "official" title as such, and shouldn't be capitalised. But my argument is that he is the LAST of them, and therefore should be referred to as the Time Lord, which would mean that it should be capitalised.

Now, the BBC site has the phrase "Time Lord" capitalised, which I look at as the official arbiter of all things Who. But as Doctor Who is a fandom that has been added to so much by fanfiction writers, I wanted to put the question out there to see what the fans think.

Yes, I know it's a little nitpicky thing. But the two of us were curious.

So, can anyone venture an opinion? Time Lord, or time lord? To capitalise or not to capitalise, that is the question.