Turucáno

turgon

Turucáno ("k") masc. name "Turgon" (PM:344). The meaning is something like "powerful commander" (see cáno). Another version gives Turondo "lord of stone" as the Q name of Turgon(d). (PE17:115), with a wholly distinct final element.

Turgon

noun. Turgon

prop. n.

Turgon

noun. Turgon

master-shout (if interpretable at all); tûr (“mastery, victory”) + caun (“outcry, clamour” ) S name of Turukáno.

turgon

masculine name. Ruling Lord, Victory Prince, (lit.) Master Shout

Second son of Fingolfin and the lord of Gondolin (S/60). His name seems to be a combination of tûr “mastery, victory” (SA/tur) and the suffix -gon (PM/345). His name was variously translated “Master Shout” (PM/345), “Ruling Lord” or “Victory Prince” (PE17/113).

Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, his name was already G. Turgon (LT1/115), and it remained so throughout Tolkien’s writings. At the earliest stage it seems to have been derived from the root ᴱ√TURU “be strong”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Tuor). In Early Noldorin word lists from the 1920s, the name was glossed “fierce k[ing]”, but this entry was replaced with an unglossed form marked “ON”. In The Etymologies from the 1930s, Tolkien specified that the final element of N. Turgon was -gon, the suffixal form of caun “valour” (Ety/KAN).

In later writings, Tolkien considered several origins for this name, based on a variety of Quenya equivalents. In Notes on Names (NN) from 1957, he considered and rejected Q. Turondo “Lord of Stone” (PE17/112), briefly considered Q. Turucáno “Ruling Lord” (PE17/117) and also Q. Turukondo “Victory Prince” (PE17/113).

In his “Shibboleth of Fëanor” from 1968, Tolkien said his Quenya name was Turucáno (PM/345), untranslated but likely meaning something like “Victory Commander”. Tolkien said that his Sindarin name Turgon was a phonetic adaptation with no real meaning, but that it could be interpreted as “Master Shout” (PM/345). This seems to have been Tolkien’s last word on the subject, but it is possible that the final element could also be interpreted as a suffixal form -gon of caun “prince”; see those entries for discussion.

Cognates

• Q. Turucáno “Ruling Lord, *(lit.) Victory Commander” ✧ PE17/117; PM/345; PMI/Turgon
• Q. Turukondo “Victory Prince” ✧ PE17/113
• Q. Turondo “Lord of Stone” ✧ PE17/112

Derivations

• ✶Turukondō ✧ PE17/112; PE17/113; PE17/113
• ✶Turukāno “Ruling Lord” ✧ PE17/113

Elements

Word	Gloss
tûr	“master, [N.] mastery, victory, [ᴱN.] power [over others]; [S.] master”
-gon	“lord, prince, lord, prince; [N.] valour”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶Turukundā > Turgond-	[turukundā] > [turukunda] > [turukonda] > [turukond] > [turugond] > [turgond]	✧ PE17/112
✶Turukāno > Tur(u)gon	[turukāno] > [turukǭno] > [turukauno] > [turukaun] > [turugaun] > [turgaun] > [turgon]	✧ PE17/113
✶Turukondō > Turgond	[turukondō] > [turukondo] > [turukond] > [turugond] > [turgond]	✧ PE17/113

Variations

• Turgond- ✧ PE17/112 (Turgond-)
• Turugorn ✧ PE17/113 (Turugorn)
• Tur(u)gon ✧ PE17/113 (Tur(u)gon)
• Turgond ✧ PE17/113; PE17/113

Turgon

Turgon

Turgon is the Sindarized version of his Quenya father-name, Turukáno. The latter contains the element káno ("commander").

turukāno

masculine name. Ruling Lord

Derivatives

• Q. Turucáno “Ruling Lord, *(lit.) Victory Commander”
• S. Turgon “Ruling Lord, Victory Prince, (lit.) Master Shout” ✧ PE17/113

turgon

masculine name. Turgon

Elements

Word	Gloss
tûr	“mastery, victory”
-gon	“valour”

baranor

masculine name. Baranor

Elements

Word	Gloss
bara	“fiery, eager”
naur	“flame”

Variations

• Turgon ✧ WR/282