ᴹQ. Valatar (Valatár-) pn. “Vala-king”

ᴹQ. Valatar (Valatár-), pn. “Vala-king”

Title of the nine great male Valar appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a combination of Vala and tar- “king” (Ety/BAL, TĀ). Its (ᴹQ) genitive and plural forms Valatáren and Valatári indictate that its stem form is Valatár-. In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, Tolkien consider this as a name for Aragorn’s father (TI/363).

References ✧ Ety/BAL; EtyAC/TĀ; TI/363; TII

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Variations

Inflections

Valatáren genitive ✧ Ety/BAL
Valatári plural ✧ EtyAC/TĀ

Elements

Vala “Power, God” ✧ Ety/BAL
tar- “high; king or queen (in compounds)” ✧ Ety/TĀ

Cognates