The southernmost of the two lamps that first lit the world (S/35). The meaning of this name is unclear.
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, the name of this lamp was ᴹQ. Ringil (LR/32). In the 1950s, Tolkien changed this to Hyaras and then Hyarantë (both probably from Q. hyar- “south”) before settling on Ormal (MR/7).
Ormal
high-gold
Ormalnoun, one of the Lamps of the Valar: *"High-Gold"??? (Silm)
The southernmost of the two lamps that first lit the world (S/35). The meaning of this name is unclear.
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, the name of this lamp was ᴹQ. Ringil (LR/32). In the 1950s, Tolkien changed this to Hyaras and then Hyarantë (both probably from Q. hyar- “south”) before settling on Ormal (MR/7).