raug

noun. demon, powerful hostile and terrible creature

Cognates

• Q. rauco “demon, powerful hostile and terrible creature” ✧ PE17/048; PE17/048; SA/rauko; WJ/415

Derivations

• √RUK “terrible shapes and the fear they inspire, terrible shapes and the fear they inspire, [ᴹ√] demon” ✧ PE17/048
• ✶grauk- “a powerful hostile and terrible creature” ✧ WJ/415
  • √RUK “terrible shapes and the fear they inspire, terrible shapes and the fear they inspire, [ᴹ√] demon” ✧ WJ/389

Element in

• S. Balrog “Demon of Might” ✧ PE17/048; PE17/048; SA/rauko; WJ/415

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√RUK > raug	[rauko] > [rauk] > [raug]	✧ PE17/048
✶grauk- > raug	[grauko] > [grauk] > [graug]	✧ WJ/415

Variations

• graug ✧ WJ/415

raug

demon

n. demon. Q. rauca. >> Balrog

raug

noun. a powerful, hostile and terrible creature, a demon

graug

noun. a powerful, hostile and terrible creature, a demon

graug

noun. demon, powerful hostile and terrible creature

raug

demon

raug (-rog in compounds, as in Balrog), pl. roeg (idh roeg), coll. pl. #rogath (isolated from Balrogath, MR:79). Also used = ”powerful, hostile, and terrible creature”.

raug

demon

(-rog in compounds, as in Balrog), pl. roeg (idh roeg), coll. pl. #rogath (isolated from Balrogath, MR:79). Also used = ”powerful, hostile, and terrible creature”.

graug

powerful, hostile and terrible creature

(i ’raug), pl. groeg (in groeg), coll. pl. grogath (WJ:415)

balrog

demon

n. (mighty) demon. A word made in ancient S. for the spirits (of 'māyan' origin) corrupted to his service by Melkor in the days outside Arda, before the coming of the Elves and the assault uopon Utumno. Q. pl1. Valaraucar. In a draft, Tolkien presented the Balrogs as of "Valar or Maian origin" (PE17:48). >> raug

balrog

fire-demon

(i valrog), pl. balroeg (i malroeg). Coll. pl. balrogath is attested. Archaic form ✱balraug. (MR:79, WJ:415). The etymological meaning is rather ”power-demon”.

celeg

adjective. swift, agile, hasty

lagor

adjective. swift, rapid

The form lhegin in the published Etymologies might be a misreading for lhegrin, see VT/45:25. As noted by Bertrand Bellet, the two forms are listed side by side, and they may simply be doublets, but it is also possible that we have here a singular followed by its plural.

lim

adjective. swift

adj. swift. Noro lim, noro lim Asfaloth. 'Run swift, run swift Asfaloth'. Q. limbe,#linta.

celeg

swift

1) celeg (agile), lenited geleg, pl. celig, 2) lagor, analogical pl. legyr, 3) legrin (rapid), no distinct pl. form, 4) lint (no distinct pl. form)

celeg

swift

(agile), lenited geleg, pl. celig

lagor

swift

analogical pl. legyr

legrin

swift

(rapid), no distinct pl. form

lint

swift

(no distinct pl. form)

ûn

creature

ûn (pl. uin).

ûn

creature

(pl. uin).