Elentári noun "Star-queen", title of Varda (EL, SA:tar)
Quenya
elentári
feminine name. Queen of the Stars, Star-queen
Cognates
- S. Elbereth “Queen of Stars, (lit.) Star-queen” ✧ LotRI/Elbereth; PE17/022; RGEO/66; SI/Elbereth; MR/388
Element in
- Q. an sí Tintallë Varda Oiolossëo ve fanyar máryat Elentári ortanë “for now the Kindler, Varda, the Queen of the Stars from Mount Everwhite has uplifted her hands like clouds” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
- Q. an sí Varda, Tintallë, Elentári ortanë máryat Oiolossëo ve fanyar “for now Varda, Star-kindler, Star-queen [has] lifted up her (two) hands from Mount Everwhite like (white) clouds” ✧ RGEO/59
Elements
Word Gloss elen “star” tári “queen, queen, [ᴱQ.] mistress, lady” Variations
- elentÁri ✧ LotR/1116; LotR/1116
- Elen-tāri ✧ PE17/070; RGEO/59
- Élentā́ri ✧ RGEO/58
Elentári
star-queen
tári
queen
tári noun "queen", used especially of Varda (TĀ/TA3, LT1:264), etymologically "she that is high" (SA:tar). Dative tárin in the Elaine inscription (VT49:40), genitive tário in Namárië. Elentári "Starqueen", a title of Varda. (Nam, RGEO:67). Tarinya "my queen" (UT:179; sic, not *tárinya). Táris or tárissë "queenship" (PE17:155)
tári
noun. queen, queen, [ᴱQ.] mistress, lady
Element in
- Q. Airë Tári “Holy Queen” ✧ PM/363
- Q. Elainen tárin Periandion ar meldenya anyáran “*to Elaine, queen of Hobbits and my very old friend” ✧ VT49/40
- Q. Elentári “Queen of the Stars, Star-queen” ✧ PE17/067; SA/tar
- Q. Kementári “Queen of the Earth” ✧ SA/tar
- Q. ómaryo airetári-lírinen “in the song of her voice, holy and queenly” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
- Q. ómaryo lírinen airetário “in [by means of] her voice’s song, of the holy-queen” ✧ RGEO/59
- Q. lírinen ómo i·aire tário “by the song of the voice of the holy queen” ✧ PE17/076
- Q. lírinen ómo i·aire táríva “by the song of the voice of the holy queen” ✧ PE17/076
- Q. tintilar lirinen ómaryo Airë-tário ✧ PM/364
- Q. táris(së) “queenship”
Variations
- Tári ✧ PM/363
- tā́ri ✧ RGEO/58
Elentári
Elentári
The name is composed of elen ("star") + tári ("queen").
Tinwerontar
star-queen, title of varda
[Tinwerontar] noun "star-queen, title of Varda" (TIN, TĀ/TA3)
Tinwetar
star-queen, queen of stars
[Tinwetar] noun "star-queen, Queen of Stars", title of Varda (TIN, TĀ/TA3)
turinqui
queen
turinqui ("q") noun "queen" (LT1:260; apparently the fem. of tur. In Tolkien's later Quenya, "queen" is tári.)
varni
queen
varni noun "queen" (LT1:273; rather tári in Tolkien's later Quenya)
rianna
noun. queen
Derivations
- √RIG “wreathe, twine, wind about; wreath, garland, crown”
A title of Varda as the maker of the stars (LotR/377, S/48), a compound elen “star” and tári “queen”.
Conceptual Development: In the first name list of the Valar from the 1910s, Varda’s title was ᴱQ. Tinwetári beside the variant Tinwevarni (PE14/14), using the earlier word tinwe for “star” (LT1A/Tinwetári). It was the first of these forms, Tinwetári, that appeared in the earliest Lost Tales along with the gloss “Queen of Stars” (LT1/100), and it also appeared in the Qenya and Gnomish Lexicons from the 1910s (QL/102; GL/18).
The name retained the form ᴹQ. Tinwetári in the first Silmarillion drafts from the beginning of the 1930s (SM/82, SM/286) and this name also appeared in The Etymologies (Ety/TĀ). In Silmarillion drafts from the mid-30s, the name was changed to ᴹQ. Tinwerontar (LR/200, 216) and the same change was made in The Etymologies (Ety/TIN), perhaps with the genitive plural tinweron of tinwe “star”. The name was soon revised to ᴹQ. Elentári (LR/216, Ety/EL), and the name retained this form thereafter.