Qenya
tarakil
masculine name. Trotter
Changes
- tarakil → Tarakon ✧ WR/395
- Tarakon → Tarantar ✧ WR/395
- Tarantar → Telcontar ✧ WR/395
Variations
- Tarantar ✧ SDI1/Tarantar; WR/395; WRI/Tarakil; WRI/Tarakil
- tarakil ✧ WR/390; WR/395
- Tarakon ✧ WR/395; WRI/Tarakil
Quenya names for Aragorn’s line in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, glossed “Trotter” (WR/390, 395). The etymology of the name is unclear, but Roman Rausch suggested the initial element might be derived from the root ᴹ√TARAK (EE/3.42).