Middle Primitive Elvish
tor
root. brother
Derivatives
Element in
Variations
- tor ✧ Ety/THEL
tār(ō)
noun. king
Derivations
- ᴹ√TĀ/TAƷ “high, lofty; noble” ✧ Ety/TĀ; PE21/55
Derivatives
Variations
- tārō ✧ Ety/TĀ; Ety/TĀ
- tā-r ✧ PE21/55
- tā-ro ✧ PE21/55
Tolkien gave this root in The Etymologies of the 1930s as ᴹ√TOR “brother” with derivatives like ᴹQ. toron and N. tôr of the same meaning (Ety/TOR). Hints of the roots continued use appear in the 1959 term Q. melotorni “love-brothers” for close male friends (NM/20). In notes from the late 1960s, Tolkien gave Q. háno and S. hanar as the words for “brother”, both from the root √KHAN. Nevertheless, I think it is worth retaining ᴹ√TOR to represent more abstract notions of “brotherhood” for the purposes of Neo-Eldarin, for “metaphorical” brothers as opposed to Q. háno/S. hanar for brothers by blood.