Title for the great female Valar appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a combination of Vala and tári “queen” (Ety/BAL).
Qenya
vala
noun. Power, God
valatar
proper name. Vala-king
valatári
proper name. Vala-queen
valandur
masculine name. *Servant of the Vala
valarya
noun. *Friday, Vala-day
Title of the nine great male Valar appearing in The Etymologies from the 1930s as a combination of Vala and tar- “king” (Ety/BAL, TĀ). Its (ᴹQ) genitive and plural forms Valatáren and Valatári indictate that its stem form is Valatár-. In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, Tolkien consider this as a name for Aragorn’s father (TI/363).