valimar

place name. Dwelling of the Valar

City of the Valar within Aman (S/38), a compound of Vali, an archaic plural of Vala, and már “home” (SA/val, bar). It also appeared in the shorter form Valmar, which was used more frequently in The Silmarillion. The long form Valimar was used in Galadriel’s Namárië poem (LotR/377), where it was equated to the whole of the land of Valinórë.

Conceptual Development: The name ᴱQ. Valmar appears in the earliest Lost Tales with essentially the same form and meaning (LT1/74), and ᴹQ. Valmar appeared in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/12, 80; LR/111, 209). The form ᴹQ. Valimar first appeared in drafts of the Namárië poem from the 1940s (TI/285).

Element in

• Q. namárië! nai hiruvalyë Valimar “farewell! maybe thou shalt find Valimar” ✧ LotR/0378; RGEO/58
• Q. namárië! nai hiruvalyë Valimar “farewell! be-it-that you will find Valimar” ✧ RGEO/59
• Q. sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar! “now lost, lost to those from the east is Valimar!” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
• Q. sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar! “now lost is, [to one] from the East lost, Valimar!” ✧ RGEO/59

Elements

Word	Gloss
Vala	“(Angelic) Power, ‘God’, Authority, (Angelic) Power, Authority, God”
már	“home, dwelling, habitation, home, dwelling, habitation; [ᴹQ.] house; earth”

Variations

• Valmar ✧ MRI/Valmar; PE17/107; PMI/Valmar; RGEO/62; SI/Valmar; UTI/Valmar
• Vali-mar ✧ PE17/064
• Válimàr ✧ RGEO/58; RGEO/58
• Val(i)mar ✧ SA/bar; SA/val