úrin

blazing hot

úrin adj. "blazing hot" (LT1:271)

úrin

g.sg. úrinden

Úrin (Úrind-, as in "g.sg. Úrinden", in LotR-style Quenya this is dat.sg.) noun, a name of the Sun (UR, PE17:148; this stem was struck out in Etym, but several words that must be derived from it occur in LotR, so it seems that Tolkien restored it.)

úr(in)

proper name. Sun

A late remnant of earlier names for the Sun: ᴱQ. Ûr and ᴹQ. Úrin. In Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s, this name was changed from Úrin >> Naira >> Vása (MR/198), but the form Úr(in) occasionally appeared in some later writings (PE17/148, MR/377). This name was a derivative of the root √UR “heat, be hot” (PE17/148).

Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, this name was ᴱQ. Ûr, Ur or Úri “Sun”, but literally meaning “Fire” (LT1/187, QL/98). The name became ᴹQ. Úrin in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LR/240). It was rejected in The Etymologies along with the root form ᴹ√UR, but reappeared sometimes in later writing as noted above.

Changes

• Úrin → Naira ✧ MR/198

Derivations

• √UR “heat, be hot” ✧ PE17/148

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√UR > Úrin	[ūrin]	✧ PE17/148

Variations

• Úrin ✧ MR/198 (Úrin); MRI/Úr; PE17/148
• Úr ✧ MR/377; MRI/Úr

úr

fire

úr noun "fire" (UR)This stem was struck out in Etym, but a word that must be derived from it occurs in LotR, so it seems that Tolkien restored it. Early "Qenya" also has Ûr, noun "the Sun" (also Úri, Úrinci ("k"), Urwen) (LT1:271). Cf. Úri.

ruinë

fire, a blaze

ruinë noun "a fire, a blaze" (PE17:183). Compare nárë.

anar

noun. Sun

The most common Quenya name for the Sun derived from primitive ✶Anār, an augmented form of the root √NAR “fire” (Let/425; PE17/38; Ety/ANÁR; SD/302, 306).

Conceptual Development: This term appeared in Silmarillion drafts of the 1930s with the gloss “Heart of Flame” (LR/240) and as ᴹQ. Anar “sun” in The Etymologies of the 1930s, already with the derivation given above (Ety/ANÁR, NAR¹).

Cognates

• S. Anor “Sun” ✧ PE17/038; SA/nár

Derivations

• √NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame” ✧ Let/425; PE17/038
• ✶Anār “Sun” ✧ SA/nár
  • √NAR “fire, fire, [ᴹ√] flame”

Element in

• Q. Amanar “Yule”
• Q. Anarcalin “*Sun-Bright” ✧ PE21/86
• Q. Anar caluva tielyanna “The sun shall shine upon your path” ✧ UT/022
• Q. Anardil “*Lover of the Sun” ✧ PE17/152
• Q. Anárion “*Son of the Sun” ✧ SA/nár
• Q. anar púrëa tihta “a bleared sun blinking” ✧ MC/222; MC/222
• Q. Anarríma “*Sun Border”
• Q. Anarya “Sunday, (lit.) Sun-day”
• Q. ceuranar “new sun after solstice”
• Q. coranar “(solar) year, (lit.) sun-round”
• ᴺQ. táranar “noon, (lit.) high-sun”
• ᴺQ. oranar “noon, (lit.) above Sun”
• ᴺQ. sardanar “corundum, (lit.) hard sun”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
√NAR > Anar	[anār] > [anar]	✧ Let/425
√(A)NAR > anā̆r	[anār] > [anar]	✧ PE17/038
✶(a)nar > Anar	[anār] > [anar]	✧ SA/nár

Variations

• anar ✧ MC/222; PE17/152
• anā̆r ✧ PE17/038

uru

fire

uru noun "fire" (LT1:271)

sá

fire

sá noun "fire" (LT1:265; "Qenya" spelling sâ. Rather nárë in LotR-style Quenya.)

úrin

adjective. (blazing) hot

Derivations

• √UR “heat, be hot”