Quenya 

taras

great towering building, (fort, city, castle) tower

taras noun, Quenya equilvalent of Sindarin barad "a great towering building, (fort, city, castle) tower" (PE17:22), also tarminas. Barad-dûr (Dark Tower) = Quenya Taras Lúna (or Lúnaturco, q.v.)

taras

noun. a great towering building (fort/city/castle), tower, great towering building (fort/city/castle), tower; [ᴹQ.] mount, hill

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
tára“lofty, tall, high”

taras

noun. high hill

Quenya [PE 22:125, 126] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

tarminas

tower

tarminas noun "tower" etc. (Sindarin barad); see taras (PE17:22)

turma

tower

[turma] (2) noun "tower". Tolkien changed this word to turco (#2), q.v. (PE17:22)

marto

tower

marto (1) noun "tower" (PE17:66)

marto

noun. tower

Cognates

  • S. barad “tower, great towering building, tower, great towering building, [N.] fort, fortress” ✧ NM/228; PE17/066

Derivations

  • √M(B)ARAT “doom, fate” ✧ NM/228
    • √MBAR “settle, dwell; establish, fix, decide, determine, make a decision, settle; establish, fix, decide, determine, make a decision; dwell, [ᴹ√] inhabit, [ᴱ√] live”
  • √BARAT “lofty, high, height combined with strength/size/majesty” ✧ PE17/066
    • √BAR “[ᴹ√] raise; uplift, save, rescue(?)”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
√BAR-AT > marto[mbarto] > [marto]✧ PE17/066
Quenya [NM/228; PE17/066] Group: Eldamo. Published by

turco

tower

turco ("k") (2) noun "tower". In Lúnaturco, Quenya name of Barad-dûr (Dark Tower). Tolkien changed the word turco from turma (PE17:22).

oro

mount, mountain

oro (1) noun "mount, mountain" (PE17:64), cf. Qenya oro noun "hill" (LT1:256; rather ambo in LotR-style Quenya, though #oro "mountain, hill" appears in Orocarni and orofarnë, q.v. [PE17:83], also with the meaning "high" in oromar, q.v.) Cf. oro- element "up, aloft" (PE17:64).

Sindarin 

taras

place name. Taras

A mountain on the coast of Nevrast (S/119), its meaning is unclear, but it might be an appearance of taras “mount” (PE22/126).

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this name was also N. Taras (LR/260).

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. taras “mount, hill”

Element in

  • S. Taras-ness “headland below Taras” ✧ UTI/Taras
Sindarin [SI/Taras; UTI/Taras; WJI/Taras] Group: Eldamo. Published by

barad

noun. tower, fortress

Sindarin [Ety/351, S/428, LotR/B] Group: SINDICT. Published by

barad

tower

1b n. tower.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:65] < BARAT/BARAD. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

barad

tower

1c n. tower. Q. marto.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:66] < BAR-AT/AD lofty, high. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

minas

noun. tower

Sindarin [Ety/373, S/434, VT/42:24] Group: SINDICT. Published by

minas

noun. fort, city with a citadel and central watch-tower

Sindarin [Ety/373, S/434, VT/42:24] Group: SINDICT. Published by

orod

mount

pl1. ered or eryd** ** n. mount, mountain. Q. oro, orto.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:63-4:89] < OR, ORO, RŌ rise, mount. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

barad

tower

1) barad (fortress, fort) (i varad), pl. beraid (i meraid). Note: barad is also an adjective "doomed", but this is derived from a stem in mb- and would have different mutations. 2) (tower or city with citadel/central watchtower) minas (i vinas), pl. minais (i minais), coll. pl. minassath

barad

tower

(fortress, fort) (i varad), pl. beraid (i meraid). Note: barad is also an adjective "doomed", but this is derived from a stem in mb- and would have different mutations.

minas

tower

(i vinas), pl. minais (i minais), coll. pl. minassath

Noldorin 

taras

place name. Taras

Noldorin [LRI/Taras] Group: Eldamo. Published by

barad

noun. tower, fortress

Noldorin [Ety/351, S/428, LotR/B] Group: SINDICT. Published by

minnas

noun. tower

Noldorin [Ety/373, S/434, VT/42:24] Group: SINDICT. Published by

minnas

noun. tower

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. mindon “(isolated) tower” ✧ Ety/MINI

Derivations

  • ᴹ√MIN “stand alone, stick out” ✧ Ety/MINI

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ√MINI > minnas[mindasse] > [mindass] > [minnass] > [minnas]✧ Ety/MINI
Noldorin [Ety/MINI] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tirion

noun. tower

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. tirion “watch-tower, tower”

Element in

Noldorin [Ety/LUG²] Group: Eldamo. Published by

minnas

noun. fort, city with a citadel and central watch-tower

Noldorin [Ety/373, S/434, VT/42:24] Group: SINDICT. Published by

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Qenya 

taras

noun. mount, hill

A noun appearing in the Quenya Verbal System of the 1940s, with its singular form taras glossed “mount” (PE22/126) and its plural form tarassi glossed “hills” (PE22/126). It appears to be an elaboration of ᴹQ. tára “high”, so perhaps more literally means “✱heights”. In later writings it seems Q. taras was used as a word for “tower” (PE17/22), though S. Taras did reappear as the name of a mountain in Sindarin (S/119).

Cognates

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
tára“lofty, high”

Variations

  • Taras ✧ PE22/126
Qenya [PE22/125; PE22/126] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Middle Primitive Elvish

taras

root. *trouble

An unglossed root in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ON. tarsa “trouble” > N. tass “labour, task” and N. trasta- “harass, trouble” (Ety/TARAS).

Derivatives

  • ᴺQ. tarassë “labour”
  • ᴺQ. tarasta- “to harass, trouble”
  • ᴺQ. tassa “(a) trouble, troublesome event/thing/circumstance”
  • N. trasta- “to harass, trouble” ✧ Ety/TARAS
  • On. tarsa “trouble” ✧ Ety/TARAS
    • N. tass “labour, task” ✧ Ety/TARAS
Middle Primitive Elvish [Ety/TARAS] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

mindon

noun. tower

Changes

  • mindon → minthon ✧ GL/57

Cognates

  • Eq. mindon “turret, tower” ✧ LT1A/Minethlos; PE13/104

Derivations

  • ᴱ√MINI “*tower” ✧ LT1A/Minethlos

Element in

Variations

  • minthon ✧ GL/57
  • Mindon ✧ LT2/291; PE13/104
Gnomish [GL/57; LT1A/Minethlos; LT2/291; PE13/104] Group: Eldamo. Published by

minthon

noun. tower

Early Quenya

tirin

place name. Tower

Name of Ingil’s tower in the earliest Lost Tales (LT2/5), it is simply tirin “tower” used as a name (LT1A/Kortirion).

Early Quenya [LT2A/Tirin; LT2I/Tirin] Group: Eldamo. Published by