Aiya earendil elenion ancalima
oer did appear in the day-of-the-week name N. Rhûnaer “Eastern Sea” appeared in draft Lord of the Rings maps from 1943 (TI/307). Belegaer in the narratives of this period (LR/19), and the name N. oer or oear “sea” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, reflecting the Noldorin sound change of ai to oe (Ety/AY). This has the additional advantage of disambuiguating it from the adjective gaer “dreadful”.Ĭonceptual Development: This word appeared as N. For these reasons, this entry uses gaear as the ordinary Sindarin word for “sea”. Similarly, the form gaer appears primarily as an element in compounds, and can be explained as a reduced form of gaear in that context. See the entry of the root √ GAY(AR) for a discussion of this vacillation. Frodo Baggins uttered this inspired outcry in The Lord of the Rings, book IV, chapter 10, while going with Sam Gamgee through Shelobs lair at Cirith Ungol. Possible Etymology: The presence or absence of the initial g- depends on whether the word’s root is √ AY(AR) (as it appears in The Etymologies and some later writings) or √ GAY(AR) (as it appears in other later writings). CognatesĪ word for “sea” variously attested as gaear (PE17/027 PM/363 WJ/400), gaer (PE17/27 PE17/149), and aear (Let/386 RGEO/65) in later writings. Earendil (SM/237, 241) and so remained thereafter. The name’s association with the Sea did not emerge until Tolkien wrote the (unfinished) “Notion Club Papers” story in the mid-1940s, at which point its form changed to ᴹQ. 'Aiya Earendil, elenion ancalima, Or Endre atanin mentaina, ar sart' alta Anaro, calina i eleni pella, ilya lme imlello illume calyalye.' (Hail Earendil, brightest of stars, over Middle-Earth to men sent and loyal radiance of the sun, bright beyond the stars, every time from thyself always you illuminate. Earendel in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LR/326) and up through Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (RS/215, TI/99, WR/223 note #29). earen ( earend-) “eagle, eyrie” (QL/34), though the “dialectical form” Yarendl was archaically used for “mariner” (QL/105). At this stage the name seems to derive from ᴱQ.
Earendel (LT1/13), often spelt Earendl in Tolkien’s early linguistic notes (QL/34, PE13/99). In fact, the first form of this name in the Lost Tales was ᴱQ. Tolkien admitted that the name was inspired by the Anglo-Saxon word éarendel “ray of light” (Let/150, 385). His name was a compound of ëar “sea” and the suffix -(n)dil “-friend, -lover” (SA/ëar, (n)dil).Ĭonceptual Development: This was one of the oldest and most important names in Tolkien’s legendarium. The great mariner who took the Silmaril of Beren to Valinórë, thereby instigating the Valar’s liberation of Beleriand and the final defeat of Morgoth (S/246).