rom

root. horn noise, horn noise; [ᴹ√] loud noise

This root and ones like it were connected to horns and loud noises for much of Tolkien’s life. The earliest iteration of the root was unglossed ᴱ√RAMA in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s with derivatives like ᴱQ. rama- “shout, sound loud, bray, blare” and ᴱQ. ran (ram-) “noise” (QL/78-79). G. rum “noise” and similar words from the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon may be derived from a variant of this root (GL/66). The root appeared as ᴹ√ROM “loud noise, horn blast” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. róma/N. †rhû “loud sound, trumpet-sound” and ᴹQ. romba/N. †rhom “horn, trumpet” (Ety/ROM). It also had an augmented variant ᴹ√OROM as the basis for ᴹQ. Orome (Ety/ORÓM).

The root √ROM was mentioned several times in Tolkien’s later writings with glosses like “horn noise” (PE17/138), “noise of horn” (PE17/153), and “used of the sound of trumpets and horns” (WJ/400). Starting in the 1930s, the name Q. Oromë was derived from this root, as opposed to the 1910s where ᴱQ. Orome was initially connected to the root ᴱ√OŘO having to do with “dawn” (QL/70-71).

Derivatives

• ✶Orǭmē “Orome” ✧ PE17/153
  • Q. Oromë “Horn-Blowing” ✧ PE17/099; PE17/153; PE21/81
  • S. Araw “Oromë” ✧ PE17/099; PE17/153
• Q. Oromë “Horn-Blowing” ✧ SA/rom
• Q. róma “horn, horn; [ᴹQ.] loud sound, trumpet-sound, *blare”
• Q. romba “horn, trumpet” ✧ WJ/400
• ᴺQ. romya “loud”
• Q. Rombaras “Horn of Oromë”
• S. rom “horn, trumpet” ✧ WJ/400

Element in

• Q. Valaróma “Horn of Oromë, *(lit.) Vala-horn” ✧ SA/rom

Variations

• rom- ✧ SA/rom
• rom ✧ WJ/400

ras

root. horn, horn; [ᴹ√] stick up

This root first appeared as ᴹ√RAS “stick up (intr.)” in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. rasse and N. rhas or rhasg “horn (especially on living animal, but also applied to mountains)” (Ety/RAS; EtyAC/RAS). It reappeared as ᴹ√RASA “stick up” on an rejected page of roots in the Quenya Verbal System from the 1940s (PE22/127). Finally, √RAS “horn” appeared in Common Eldarin: Noun Structure of the early 1950s, but that was merely the last appearance of the root in Tolkien’s published writings. Q. rassë and S. rass “horn” continued to appear regularly as an element in mountain names in the 1950s and 60s.

Derivatives

• ✶aras(sō) “hart” ✧ PE21/82
  • ᴺQ. arasso “hart, stag, (male) deer”
  • S. aras “deer, deer, hart, *stag”
• ✶rass “horn”
• Q. ras- “to stick out”
• Q. rassë “horn, horn [of both animals and mountains]”
• S. rass “horn, horn [of both animals and mountains]”
• S. ras(t) “cape, shore”

Element in

• ᴺQ. rassulca “carrot”

rass

noun. horn

Derivations

• √RAS “horn, horn; [ᴹ√] stick up”

Element in

• S. Caran-rass “Redhorn” ✧ SA/caran