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The article provides an outline of the influence of the linguistic personality of an author and author's worldview on fiction text with the help of author's fictitious proper names (mythonyms). The article is based on the material of works by O.N. Gromyko. The aim of the research is to emphasize the dependence of the author's word-creation process and the choice of word-building models on the individual worldview of the author. The article provides an analysis of the charactonyms, which is of interest from the point of view of the pragmatics of a fiction literature text, its ability to influence the reader. Examples of mythonyms created by the author are given. A theoretical basis of mythonym functioning in the onomastic space of a fiction composition is presented. The choice of the research is motivated by the fact that the sphere is not studied well enough. The material is chosen according to the popularity of this author in the language environment.

The paper aims at exemplifying the characteristic features of onomastic space of a fantasy text. The authors examine the notion of a ‘mythonym’, systemize different approaches to classifying mythonymical units. The conducted study permitted to work out a thematic classification of mythonyms from the novels “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” by J.R.R. Tolkien and “A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones” by G.R.R. Martin and to draw the conclusion on mythonyms’ role in fantasy literature.