rimbedir

masculine name. Trotter

Earliest Elvish name in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s for the character that would become Aragorn (RS/198). Its etymology is unclear.

Changes

• Rimbedir → Padathir “Trotter” ✧ RS/198

padathir

masculine name. Trotter

An early Elvish name in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s for the character that would become Aragorn (RS/198). It is glossed “Trotter” and seems to be a combination of pad- "walk" and the agental suffix dîr “man”, perhaps dissimilated to -thir (as suggested by Roman Rausch, EE/1.3).

Element in

• N. Ai, Padathir, Padathir “Hail, Trotter, Trotter” ✧ RS/198