Sindarin
ernil i pheriannath
proper name. Prince of the Halflings
Elements
Word Gloss ernil “prince” i “the” Perian “Halfling, Hobbit” Variations
- ernil i Pheriannath ✧ PE17/096
Noldorin
ernil a pheriannath
proper name. Prince of the Halflings
Title given to Pippin by the people Minas Tirith translated “Prince of the Halflings” (LotR/768), a combination of ernil “prince”, the elided plural form of the definite article i “the” and the nasal mutation plural of Perian “Halfling” (Let/425).
Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name first appeared as Ernil a Pheriannath (WR/287). This form seems to included the genitive preposition N. an “of”, elided and causing nasal mutation of the following noun, as suggested by Roman Rausch (EE/3.25).