in(d) (“heart, meaning, inner thought”) + glaur (“golden”) [Etym. ID-]
Sindarin
Inglor
noun. Inglor
Inglor
noun. golden heart
inglor
masculine name. Inglor
Sindarin form of Q. Ingalaurë, mother-name of Finarfin (PE17/118), possibly invalid due to later changes (see below).
Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, N. Inglor was the given name of Felagund (LR/116, 254), but sometime between the publication of the 1st and 2nd editions of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien changed his given name to S. Finrod (MR/181 note §41-2). At one point, Tolkien repurposed Inglor as a hypothetical Sindarin name of Felagund’s father Finarfin, a translation of his mother-name Q. Ingalaurë, but “this was not actually applied to [Finarfin] who never came to Beleriand” (PE17/118).
Later still, Finarfin’s mother-name was changed to Q. Ingoldo (PM/360), at which point the name S. Inglor may have been removed from the legendarium, though it perhaps survived as the name of the father of Gildor: see Inglorion.
See S. Felagund for a table of the conceptual development related names.
Cognates
- Q. Ingalaurë “*Top Gold” ✧ PE17/118
Element in
- S. Inglorion “*Son of Inglor”
prop. n.