Inglor

noun. Inglor

prop. n.

Inglor

noun. golden heart

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

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.

Cognates

• Q. Ingalaurë “*Top Gold” ✧ PE17/118

Element in

• S. Inglorion “*Son of Inglor”