Tasarinan

willow-vale

Tasarinan(þ) place-name *"Willow-vale", also Nan-Tasarion (LotR2:III ch. 4)

tasarinan

place name. Willow-vale

A Quenya name of S. Nan-tathren used by the Ents (LotR/469, SA/tathar), translated “Willow-vale” (RC/384) or “Vale of Willow” (PE17/81). It is a compound of the stem form of tasar(ë) (tasari-) “willow” and the suffix -nan “valley” (SA/tathar, RC/384).

Conceptual Development: The name ᴱQ. Tasarinan appeared in the earliest Lost Tales (LT2/140, 225), though at this early stage its initial element was ᴱQ. tasarin “willow” (QL/89). The name ᴹQ. Tasarinan also appeared in Treebeard’s song in the Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (TI/417).

Cognates

• S. Nan-tathren “Land of Willows, (lit.) Willow-vale” ✧ SA/tathar

Elements

Word	Gloss
tasar(ë)	“willow”
nan(do)	“(wide) valley, vale, (wide) valley, vale; [ᴹQ.] water-mead, watered plain; [ᴱQ.] woodland”

tasar

willow-tree

tasar, tasarë (þ) noun "willow-tree" (TATHAR). In Tasarinan "Willow-valley", Nan-tasarion "Valley of willows" (SA:tathar)

tathor

noun. willow-tree

Cognates

• ᴹQ. tasar(e) “willow-tree” ✧ Ety/TATHAR

Derivations

• ᴹ✶tatharē “willow-tree” ✧ Ety/TATHAR
  • ᴹ√TATHAR “*willow” ✧ Ety/TATHAR

Element in

• N. tathren “of willow” ✧ Ety/TATHAR

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
ᴹ✶tatharē > tathor	[tatʰarē] > [tatʰrē] > [tatʰre] > [taθre] > [taθr] > [taθor]	✧ Ety/TATHAR

nan-tathren

place name. Land of Willows

Cognates

• ᴹQ. Tasarinan “Land of Willows” ✧ TII/Tasarinan

Elements

Word	Gloss
nann	“wide grassland”
tathren	“of willow”

Variations

• Nan Tathren ✧ Ety/NAD; TII/Tasarinan
• Nan-Tathren ✧ LR/145

nan-tathrin

place name. Land of Willows

Changes

• Nan-Tathrin → Nan-Tathren ✧ LR/145
• Nan-Tathrin → Nan-tathren ✧ LR/261
• Nan-tathrin → Nan-tathren ✧ LRI/Nan-tathren

Variations

• Nan-tathrin ✧ LRI/Nan-tathren
• Nan Tathrin ✧ SM/329; SMI/Nan Tathrin