cormacolindor

collective name. Ring-bearers

A title of Frodo and Sam as bearers of the One Ring (LotR/953). It is a compound of corma “ring” and the plural form of colindo “bearer”.

Elements

Word	Gloss
corma	“ring”
colindo	“bearer”

corma

noun. ring

A word for “ring” appearing as an element in Q. Cormacolindor “Ring-bearers” (LotR/953), clearly derived from the root √KOR “round”. It also appeared in a translation of the title of The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien included in a 1973 letter to Phillip Brown: i Túrin i Cormaron.

Conceptual Development: Another translation of “Lord of the Rings” is known from an exhibit of Tolkien manuscripts: Heru imillion, where presumably the element millë means “ring” (DTS/54). In a deleted entry from The Etymologies of the 1930s, Tolkien had ᴹQ. kolma “ring ([?on] finger)” [or possibly “or finger”] derived from a deleted root ᴹ√KOL (EtyAC/KOL).

Cognates

• S. cor “ring, circle”
• ᴺS. corf “ring (for fingers)”

Element in

• Q. Cormacolindor “Ring-bearers” ✧ LotR/0953
• Q. Cormarë “Ringday” ✧ LotR/1112
• Q. i Túrin i Cormaron “the Lord of the Rings” ✧ Minor-Doc/1973-05-30

Elements

Word	Gloss
KOR	“round, round; [ᴱ√] be round, roll”
-ma	“instrumental”

Variations

• Corma ✧ LotR/0953 (Corma); LotR/1112 (Corma)

colindo

bearer

#colindo noun "bearer", pl. #colindor in cormacolindor "ring-bearers" (q.v.)

corma

ring

#corma noun "ring", isolated from #cormacolindo "Ring-bearer", pl. cormacolindor (LotR3:VI ch. 4, translated in Letters:308); Cormarë "Ringday", a festival held on Yavannië 30 in honour of Frodo Baggins (Appendix D)

colindo

noun. bearer

Element in

• ᴺQ. cöacolindo “snail, (lit.) house-bearer”
• Q. Cormacolindor “Ring-bearers” ✧ LotR/0953

Elements

Word	Gloss
col-	“to bear, carry, wear”
-ndo	“masculine agent”

risil

ring

*risil (þ) noun "ring" (on the ground) in Rithil-Anamo, q.v.