inglor

masculine name. Inglor

Sindarin form of Q. Ingalaurë, mother-name of Finarfin (PE17/118), possibly invalid due to later changes (see below).

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, N. Inglor was the given name of Felagund (LR/116, 254), but sometime between the publication of the 1st and 2nd editions of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien changed his given name to S. Finrod (MR/181 note §41-2). At one point, Tolkien repurposed Inglor as a hypothetical Sindarin name of Felagund’s father Finarfin, a translation of his mother-name Q. Ingalaurë, but “this was not actually applied to [Finarfin] who never came to Beleriand” (PE17/118).

Later still, Finarfin’s mother-name was changed to Q. Ingoldo (PM/360), at which point the name S. Inglor may have been removed from the legendarium, though it perhaps survived as the name of the father of Gildor: see Inglorion.

See S. Felagund for a table of the conceptual development related names.

Inglor

noun. Inglor

prop. n.

Inglor

noun. golden heart

in(d) (“heart, meaning, inner thought”) + glaur (“golden”) [Etym. ID-]

inglorion

masculine name. *Son of Inglor

Sobriquet of Gildor of the house of Finrod (LotR/80), a combination of Inglor and -ion, hence “✱Son of Inglor”.

Conceptual Development: In his first appearance in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, Gildor already had the sobriquet N. Inglorion, and was said to be of the house of Finrod (RS/60). At this stage, N. Inglor was the given name of Felagund lord of Nargothrond and N. Finrod was his father (LR/113, 116), so it is possible that Tolkien conceived of the character as the son (or descendant) of Felagund when he was first created. Later the names of these characters where rearranged, as described in the entry for S. Felagund, and Tolkien decided that Finrod never married (WJ/44), so this scenario became impossible. It is conceivable that Gildor became instead the son of some other Elf named Inglor, either a relative of Finrod or simply an inhabitant of Nargothrond.

Inglorion

noun. son of Inglor

in(d) (“heart, meaning, inner thought”) + glaur (“golden”) [Etym. ID-] + iôn (“son”)

Inglor Felagund

Inglor Felagund

Inglor in the early appearances was interpreted as "heart-gold" (Roots IND and G-LOR). Although the name Inglor(ion) is not analyzed in the later works, there is a similarity to Finarfin's mother-name, Ingalaurë. Therefore according to the more recent background, Inglor could be the Sindarin interpretation of that name, having a new etymology and meaning ("Vanya-gold").