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.

Thank you so much for all of the help that you have given me. I did not know that you should not include the preposition " of". I will make sure that I don't make that mistake. Also from what I can find out from various other constructions and your own, it seems that the adjective would come first in the name as in Galadriel -Lady of Light.

I like Gorfaril as it has much of the same beauty of the original name that I picked out. I kinda liked Feredisagaur, but it is a little unwieldy, and I want to be true to Tolkien's language.

I think that I will definitely go with Gorfaril and thank you both so much for your help. I really enjoyed listening to your thoughts and I am so grateful for the lessons that you taught me.

Love in Christ,

Abigail Micaiah