Ambarto

upwards-exalted

Ambarto masc. name *"upwards-exalted", mother-name (never used in narrative) of Pityafinwë = Amrod (PM:353, 354)

ambarto

masculine name. *High and Lofty

A name that Fëanor gave his youngest son to replace his ominous-sounding mother-name Umbarto (PM/353-4). It is a compound of amba “up” and a masculinized form of the adjective arata “exalted, lofty”, so perhaps meant: “✱High and Lofty” (PM/353). It seems this name was Sindarized as S. Amrod. Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies from the 1930s, the name ᴹQ. Nambarauto “Hammerer of Copper” is given as the Qenya equivalent of his earlier name N. Damrod (Ety/NDAM, RAUTĀ).

Cognates

• S. Amrod “*High and Lofty” ✧ PM/353; PMI/Amrod; VT41/10

Elements

Word	Gloss
amba	“up(wards)”
arata	“high, noble, exalted, lofty”

Umbarto

fated

Umbarto masc. name, "Fated", mother-name (never used in narrative) of Telufinwë = Amras. The ominous name was altered to Ambarto by Fëanor. (PM:353-354)

umbarto

masculine name. Fated

A name given by Nerdanel to one of her youngest children when Fëanor insisted she given them distinct names, though she did not say to which it applied (PM/353). It is a masculinized form of umbar “fate, doom”. Fëanor altered it to the less ominous sounding Ambarto.

Cognates

• S. Amarthan “Fated One” ✧ VT41/10

Elements

Word	Gloss
umbar	“fate, doom, curse”

amrod

masculine name. *High and Lofty

Twin brother of Amras and youngest(?) of the sons of Fëanor (it is unclear which of the twins was born first). The name is a compound of am “up” and the suffixal form -rod of raud “lofty, noble” (PM/353, VT41/10), an adaption of his Quenya name Q. Ambarto (PM/353).

Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, this character was first named G. Damrod (LT2/251), and the name remained N. Damrod in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LR/223). It appeared in The Etymologies with the gloss “hammerer of copper”, a combination of N. dam “hammer” and the lenited form of N. rhaud “metal” (Ety/NDAM, RAUTĀ).

The name was changed to S. Amrod in Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s (WJ/197). Elsewhere Tolkien said that Amrod would also have been the proper Sindarin adaption for the name of Ambarto’s cousin Q. Ambaráto, but that Noldorin Elf chose the Sindarin name Aegnor instead (PM/347).

Cognates

• Q. Ambaráto “*High Champion” ✧ PM/347; PMI/Aegnor
• Q. Ambarto “*High and Lofty” ✧ PM/353; PMI/Amrod; VT41/10

Elements

Word	Gloss
am	“up, up, [G.] upwards, towards head of, above”
raud	“noble, eminent; lofty, high, tall; excellent”

amarthan

fated

amarthan (pl. emerthain)

amarthan

fated

(pl. emerthain)

amarthan

adjective. fated