maedhros
masculine name. *Shapely and Red-haired
Changes
- Maedros → Maedron ✧ PM/372
Variations
- Maedros ✧ MRI/Maidros; PM/352; PM/366; PM/372; PMI/Maedros; VT41/10; WJI/Maidros
- Maedron ✧ PM/372; PMI/Maedros
- Maiðros ✧ WJ/115; WJI/Maidros
- Maeðros ✧ WJI/Maidros
maidhros
masculine name. Pale-glitter
Changes
Maedhros→ Maidhros ✧ Ety/MAD- Maidros → Maedhros ✧ LR/301
- Maidros → Maedhros ✧ SMI/Maidros
- Maidros → Maiðros ✧ WJ/115
- Maidros → Maiðros ✧ WJI/Maidros
Derivations
- On.
Maenros✧ Ety/MAƷ|MAG; EtyAC/MAƷElements
Word Gloss maidh “pale, fallow, fawn [light yellowish tan colour]” rhoss “polished metal” Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources On. Maenros > Maedhros [maenros] > [maeðros] ✧ Ety/MAƷ MAG Variations
- Maidros ✧ Ety/MAD; LR/301; LRI/Maidros; MRI/Maidros; PMI/Maedros; SMI/Maidros; WJ/115; WJI/Maidros
- Maedhros ✧ Ety/MAƷ|MAG (
Maedhros); Ety/RUS; EtyAC/MAƷ (Maedhros)- Maiðros ✧ EtyAC/MAƷ (
Maiðros)- Meiðros ✧ EtyAC/MAƷ (
Meiðros)- Maedros ✧ LRI/Maidros
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maidros
masculine name. Maidros
maidros
masculine name. Maidros
Eldest son of Fëanor (S/60). His name is an adaption of elements from both his mother-name Q. Maitimo “Well-shaped One” and his nickname Q. Russandol “Copper-top”: S. maed “shapely” and S. ross “red-haired” (PM/366). As such, his name was more properly spelled Maedros (PM/352).
Conceptual Development: When he first appeared in the earliest Lost Tales, this character’s name was G. Maidros (LT2/241), a name that earlier in the tales was used for the grandfather of Fëanor (LT1/146). This form continued to be used in the Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/88, LR/223), but in The Etymologies, Tolkien said it was an anglicanization of proper Noldorin Maidhros “Pale-glitter” (Ety/MAD), which also appeared in The Etymologies as N. Maedhros (Ety/RUS).
The form Maidhros continued to appear in Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s (WJ/115), but for the most part earlier Maidros was revised to Maedhros (MR/177), the form Christopher Tolkien adopted for the published version of The Silmarillion: see N. [[n|[ai] revised to [ae]]]. Tolkien constructed the derivation given above in The Shibboleth of Fëanor, where he actually used the form Maedros (PM/352, 366). Later still he considered revising the name to Maedron (PM/372, note #2), but this change was not carried out in the texts.