amdir

noun. hope based on reason

amdir

noun. hope [based on reason], (lit.) looking up, hope [based on reason], *expectation, (lit.) looking up

Cognates

• ᴺQ. amatírë “hope”

Element in

• S. Gil-Amdir

Elements

Word	Gloss
am	“up, up, [G.] upwards, towards head of, above”
tir-	“to look (towards), watch (over), guard, to look (towards), watch (over), guard; [G.] to look (out) for, watch for, await, expect”

Variations

• Amdir ✧ MR/320

amin

masculine name. Hope

A rejected name for Aragorn, changed to Estel (PM/269). It is probably a variant of amdir (MR/320).

Changes

• Amin → Estel ✧ PM/269
• Amin → Estel “Hope” ✧ PMI/Estel

hartha-

verb. to hope

harthad

gerund noun. hope

estel

noun. hope, trust, a temper of mind, steady fixed in purpose, and difficult to dissuade and unlikely to fall into despair or abandon its purpose

estel

noun. hope

n. hope. ónen i·Estel Edain 'I gave the "Hope" (to) Men'.

estel

masculine name. Hope

A name for Aragorn (LotR/1061), it is simply the noun estel “hope” used as a name (PE17/117).

Conceptual Development: In drafts of the Lord of the Rings appendices, this name first appeared as S. Amin (PM/269).

Element in

• S. ónen i-Estel Edain “I gave Hope to the Dúnedain” ✧ LotR/1061; PE17/117

Elements

Word	Gloss
estel	“hope, trust, hope, trust, *faith [in]”

estel

hope

(trust, steady purpose), pl. estil

amdir

hope

1) (based on reason) amdir (no distinct pl. form). Literally an "up-looking". 2) (closer in meaning to ”faith”) estel (trust, steady purpose), pl. estil, 3) (noun) harthad (i charthad, o charthad), pl. herthaid (i cherthaid)

amdir

hope

(no distinct pl. form). Literally an "up-looking".

amdir

Amdír

The word Amdir, without the long í, is recorded as a word for "Hope", or "looking up", in Sindarin. The King of Lórien is called Malgalad in one text, detailing the fate of the Sindarin kings in the Battle of Dagorlad. Christopher Tolkien argues that, since they are contemporaries and both described as Kings that died in the Battle of Dagorlad, they are likely the same. It is unclear however which form was abandoned. Malgalad likely means "Gold-shine", from malt, "gold (the metal)" and galad, "light, radiance, glittering, reflection (from jewels, glass or polished metal, or water)" or "Golden-tree", from the outdated spelling of galadh.

amdir

up-looking

amdir

up-looking

(a term for hope based on reason) amdir

am

up, upward

(adv.) am (also used as prep. "upon"). GOING UP (or uprising) am- (adjectival prefix), as in:

am

up, upward

(also used as prep. "upon").

ambenn

uphill

(sloping upward), pl. embinn, 

hartha

hope

(verb) #hartha- (i chartha, i charthar). Verbal stem isolated from the apparent gerund harthad, ”hope” as noun.

hartha

hope

(i chartha, i charthar). Verbal stem isolated from the apparent gerund harthad, ”hope” as noun.

harthad

hope

(i charthad, o charthad), pl. herthaid (i cherthaid)