r/Quenya

Hi there everyone!

So I’m working on a passion project and trying to get a sword engraved with Cirth runes, specifically Angerthas Daeron.

Trouble is, I’m having some trouble figuring out the name within the rules of the language! As I understand it, Anduril is itself a compound Quenya name, combing andúnë and rîl.

So my question is this: if I’ve chosen the name Starthorn, and the words are elen and necel, would it be alright to drop one of those “n’s” from the word? So the name would be Elenecel!

Thanks so much for any advice :) once I know I can get cracking!

I know it is a strange question, but listen, “West” is called númen, literally “going down direction” because the Sun going sunset in that direction. Viceversa, “Est” is rómen, literally “rising direction” due to sunrise. And we have North with formen, “right direction”, and South with hyarmen, “left direction”, because West is the main orientation direction of Eldar.

Now, I was thinking that númen and rómen used to have different names. Although we have no information, but this words only have a set in a world where the Sun exist, but for circa 4 millennia there where no Sun, there were the Two Trees. However, we know that formen already existed because we have Formenos, the Northern Fortress, in the time of the Two Trees.

So likely formen and hyarmen already existed and West was the main direction, maybe because the Two Trees were in the west of Aman, but in that contest “the going down direction” and “the rising direction” has no sense at all.

I was no able to find any informations, but giving the context I speculate that there used to be different words from West and East and they were modified with the advent of the Sun, while North and South stayed the same.

What are your thoughts?

Hello everyone, I’m looking for a horse name in either Sindarin or Quenya. The horse I want to name has a very distinctive feature: its fur shimmers golden in the sun (we’re not sure but it’s possible that he has Akhal-Teke ancestry, for reference). Do you have ideas for a name that reflects this feature?

I was already thinking of Laurelin, but where I’m from, there’s a name for women that sounds very similar, and there’s the possibility that people will just mix it up.

Other ideas included Glawar or Anárion.

But do you have more ideas? It would be great to hear them! :)

Yoo! I would appreciate some help to know what's elvish (quenya specifically) for "so close yet so far"