Hunter of Wolves

Hello! I'm looking for a name for a Dunedain character whose name means "hunter of wolves". I found out that the primary language of the Dunedain would be Quenya, Sindarin, and Western. I went with Sindar.

Well in Sindar the word for "hunter" is "Feredis" and the word for "wolf" is either "gaur" or "draug". And then "of" is "an". To my mind the woman's name would then be Feredisagaur. I like the name, but just wanted to make sure that I didn't contract it wrong and linguistically, in Tolkien's world, it would be right.

Thank you so much for your help. Hopefully I got it right.

Mae govannen! In name constructions, you should not add "of". For example, Elbereth translates to "Queen of Stars", but there is no "of" article in the name.

The word you have provided for "hunter" is a neologism, meaning it was not directly created by Tolkien. It is still a valid word, but can get unwieldy in constructions.

Using the words you have, you would get something like Gorferedis. If you used draug, it might be Draugferedis, but I cannot find any attested words in Sindarin that have gf in them. It might mutate to Drauferedis, but that is pure conjecture and so I do not recommend it.

If you wanted a shorter version of "female hunter", you could possibly use fareth or faril. Thus, you would get Gorfareth or Gorfaril.

As always, I recommend a second opinion!

I got to thinking about this one. I am not sure if gaur [ng-] “werewolf” would fit. I know we have the example Gaurwaith “Wolf-men” but it is more lit. werewolf-people.

And I agree with Ambarkas that Draugferedis would not work as there is no attested formation of -gf-. hmmm... ᴹ✶d’rāk-SPAR¹ I just don't think this works.

What's your thought Ambarkas?

I still think gaur is valid, given that Tolkien's werewolves were simply enchanted animals and not shape-shifters. The only shape-shifters we ever find in Tolkien are Beorn, Sauron, and Elwing, and none of them are under 'curses' like we would think of for modern werewolves. Thus, I have been using gaur to refer to any type of wolf.