Name for Middle-earth appearing as ambar-endya in notes for Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/241), and also appearing as Ambarenya in The Etymologies, apparently a compound of Ambar “Earth” and enya “middle” (Ety/MBAR).
Qenya
endamar
place name. Middle-earth
Elements
Word Gloss ende “centre, middle, core” mar “home, dwelling, house, habitation; earth”
endor
place name. Middle-earth
Changes
- Endor → Endórë ✧ SMI/Endor
Element in
- ᴹQ. atani koitar endoresse “men live in Middle-earth” ✧ PE22/125
- ᴹQ. et Ëarello Endorenna nilendie “Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth have I come” ✧ SD/056; SD/056
- ᴹQ. númen Endorello isse sí Vaia síra “westward of Middle-earth where now Ocean flows” ✧ PE22/126
Elements
Word Gloss ende “centre, middle, core” -ndor “-land” Variations
- Endon ✧ SMI/Endor
ambarenya
place name. Middle-earth
Cognates
- N. Emerin “Middle-earth” ✧ Ety/MBAR
Elements
Word Gloss Ambar “Earth, World” enya “middle, *central, middle” Variations
- ambar-endya ✧ SM/241
- Ambar-endya ✧ SMI/Ambar-endya
Another name for “Middle-earth” appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a compound of ende “middle” and mar “earth” (Ety/ÉNED, MBAR, NDOR).