Quenya 

Turambar

master of doom/fate

Turambar masc. name, "Master of Doom/Fate", name taken in pride by Túrin (Appendix A, SA:tur, TUR, MBARAT, VT49:42)

turambar

masculine name. Master of Doom, Master of Fate

A sobriquet adopted by Túrin in defiance of the curse set upon him by Morgoth translated “Master of Doom” (S/217). The first element of this name is tur “master”. The second element resembles the variant form ambar of umbar seen in the phrase a Túrin Turambar turún’ ambartanen “O master of doom by doom mastered”. Elsewhere, however, Tolkien stated that the second element was derived directly from the primitive form ✶ṃbart(ă), with the middle vowel a originally associated with the verbal element tur-: ✶tura-mbar (PE17/104, 124).

Conceptual Development: This name dates back to the earliest Lost Tales (LT2/70). The name ᴱQ. Turambar appeared in the Qenya Lexicon beside a variant form Turamarto (QL/95), but in all the narratives it consistently appeared as Turambar. At the earliest stage, this name was likely a compound of the root ᴱ√TURU (LT1A/Meril-i-Turinqi, QL/95) and ᴱQ. ambar “fate” (LTA2/Turambar, QL/34).

In The Etymologies from the 1930s, ᴹQ. Turambar appeared as a derivative of the roots ᴹ√TUR and ᴹ√MBARAT (Ety/TUR, MBARAT), but Tolkien revised the Quenya word for “fate” to ᴹQ. umbar, so that it could no longer be a direct element of this name. Tolkien considered but rejected a new form ᴹQ. Turumbar (Ety/TUR). Hereafter, Tolkien probably considered the name to be an older compound assembled from its primitive elements.

Tolkien did gradually alter the translation of this name, from ᴱQ. “Conqueror of Fate” (LT2/86) >> ᴹQ. “Master of Fate” (Ety/TUR) >> Q. “Master of Doom” (S/217).

Cognates

  • S. Turamarth “Master of Doom” ✧ SA/amarth; WJI/Turumarth

Derivations

  • tura-mbar “master of fate” ✧ PE17/104

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
-tur“master, lord, ruler, master, lord, ruler, [ᴹQ.] victor”
ṃbart(ă)“fate, doom; (orig.) permanent establishment”

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
tura-mbar > Turambar[turambar]✧ PE17/104

Variations

  • TURAMBAR ✧ S/226
Quenya [LotRI/Turambar; MRI/Túrin; PE17/104; PE17/124; PE17/164; PMI/Turambar; S/217; S/223; S/226; SA/amarth; SA/tur; SI/Turambar; UT/138; UTI/Turambar; WJI/Turambar; WJI/Turumarth] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ambar

fate, doom

ambar (2) noun "fate, doom" (variant of umbar?) in Turambar (SA:amarth); stem ambart- (PE17:66), instrumental ambartanen "by doom" (Silm ch. 21, UT:138, PE17:66). The early "Qenya" lexicon has ambar "Fate", also amarto (LT2:348)

umbar

fate, doom

umbar (umbart-, as in dat.sg. umbarten) noun "fate, doom" (MBARAT), also name of tengwa #6 (Appendix E).Cf. Umbarto. In the pre-classical Tengwar system presupposed in the Etymologies, umbar was the name of letter #18 (VT45:33), which tengwa Tolkien would later call malta instead changing its Quenya value from mb to m. In the word Tarumbar "King of the World" (q.v.), umbar appears to be a variant of Ambar (q.v.) instead.

amarto

fate

amarto noun "Fate" (also ambar) (LT2:348; in LotR-style Quenya rather umbar, umbart-)

marta

fate

marta (3) noun "fate" (VT45:33, VT46:13) Cf. marto.

Sindarin 

turamarth

masculine name. Master of Doom

The Sindarin equivalent of Q. Turambar, the second name of Túrin. It is a compound of S. tûr “mastery, victory” and S. amarth “fate, doom” (Ety/TUR, SA/amarth).

Conceptual development: This name developed from G. Turumart “Conqueror of Fate” in the earliest Lost Tales (LT2/86) to N. Turumarth “Master of Fate” in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/127, Ety/TUR) and finally S. Turamarth “Master of Doom” in Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s. All forms of the name had essentially the same derivation as given above, though Tolkien vacillated between Tura- and Turu- even in later writings (WJ/315).

Cognates

  • Q. Turambar “Master of Doom, Master of Fate” ✧ SA/amarth; WJI/Turumarth

Derivations

Element in

Elements

WordGloss
tûr“master, [N.] mastery, victory, [ᴱN.] power [over others]; [S.] master”
amarth“fate, doom”

Variations

  • Túramarth ✧ VT50/05; VT50/18
  • Turumarth ✧ WJI/Turumarth
Sindarin [LRI/Turamarth; SA/amarth; SMI/Turumarth; VT50/05; VT50/18; WJI/Turumarth] Group: Eldamo. Published by

amarth

noun. fate, doom

Sindarin [Ety/372, S/427, LotR/A(i), TC/183] Group: SINDICT. Published by

amarth

noun. fate

n. fate. Q. umbar. >> Amon Amarth

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:104] < *_ambarta_ < primitive S. *_ambar_ < _m¥bar_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

amarth

fate

1b n. fate, doom. Q. ambar (ambart-). >> Amon Amarth

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:66:114] < MAR(AT)/MBART doom, fate. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

amarth

fate

n. fate, doom. Q. umbar. . This gloss was rejected.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:123-4] < S. _ammarth _< *_mbart-_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

ammarth

fate

n. fate, doom. ammarth > amarth. . This gloss was rejected.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:123-4] < *_mbart-_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

amarth

fate

amarth (doom), pl. emerth; also manadh (i vanadh) (doom, final end, fortune [usually = final bliss]), pl. menaidh (i menaidh);

Primitive elvish

tura-mbar

masculine name. master of fate

Derivatives

  • Q. Turambar “Master of Doom, Master of Fate” ✧ PE17/104
  • S. Turamarth “Master of Doom”
Primitive elvish [PE17/104; VT49/42] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Noldorin 

turumarth

masculine name. Master of Fate, Conqueror of Fate

Changes

  • TurumarthTuramarth ✧ LR/321
  • TurumarthTuramarth ✧ LRI/Turamarth
  • TurumarthTuramarth ✧ SM/131
  • TurumarthTuramarth ✧ SMI/Turumarth

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. Turambar “Master of Fate, Conqueror of Fate” ✧ Ety/MBARAT; Ety/TUR; SMI/Turumarth; SM/127; SM/305; SMI/Turambar

Elements

WordGloss
tûr“mastery, victory”
ammarth“fate, doom”

Variations

  • Turamarth ✧ Ety/MBARAT; LR/321; SM/131
  • Túramarth ✧ Ety/TUR
  • turammarth ✧ PE22/041
Noldorin [Ety/MBARAT; Ety/TUR; LR/321; LRI/Turamarth; PE22/041; SM/127; SM/131; SM/305; SMI/Turambar; SMI/Turumarth] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ammarth

noun. fate, doom

Noldorin [Ety/372, S/427, LotR/A(i), TC/183] Group: SINDICT. Published by

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Qenya 

turambar

masculine name. Master of Fate, Conqueror of Fate

Changes

  • TurumbarTurambar ✧ Ety/MBARAT

Cognates

  • N. Turumarth “Master of Fate, Conqueror of Fate” ✧ Ety/MBARAT; Ety/TUR; SMI/Turumarth; SM/127; SM/305; SMI/Turambar

Elements

WordGloss
TUR“power, control, mastery, victory”
MBARAT“fate”

Variations

  • Turumbar ✧ Ety/MBARAT (Turumbar)
Qenya [Ety/MBARAT; Ety/TUR; LR/140; LRI/Turambar; SM/127; SM/305; SMI/Turambar; SMI/Turumarth] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Gnomish

turumart

masculine name. Conqueror of Fate

Changes

  • TurumartTurumarth ✧ WJI/Turumarth

Cognates

  • Eq. Turambar “Conqueror of Fate” ✧ LT2I/Turumart; LT2/070; LT2/086; LT2A/Turambar; LT2I/Turambar
Gnomish [LT2/070; LT2/086; LT2A/Turumart; LT2I/Turambar; LT2I/Turumart; WJI/Turumarth] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Noldorin

turmarth

masculine name. Conqueror of Fate

Changes

  • TurmarthTuramarth ✧ SMI/Turumarth

Cognates

  • Eq. Turambar “Conqueror of Fate” ✧ PE15/61; SM/030

Variations

  • Turum(b)arth ✧ PE15/61
  • Turumart ✧ SMI/Turumarth
Early Noldorin [PE15/61; SM/030; SMI/Turumarth] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

turambar

masculine name. Conqueror of Fate

Cognates

  • En. Turumart ✧ LBI/Turumart
  • G. Turumart “Conqueror of Fate” ✧ LT2I/Turumart; LT2/070; LT2/086; LT2A/Turambar; LT2I/Turambar
  • En. Turmarth “Conqueror of Fate” ✧ PE15/61; SM/030

Variations

  • Turumarto ✧ LT1A/Meril-i-Turinqi
  • Turamarto ✧ QL/095
Early Quenya [LBI/Turambar; LBI/Turumart; LT1A/Meril-i-Turinqi; LT2/070; LT2/086; LT2A/Turambar; LT2I/Turambar; LT2I/Turumart; PE15/61; PME/096; QL/095; SM/030] Group: Eldamo. Published by