Valimar place-name "Vali-home" (Vali = Valar), the city of the Valar in Valinor, also in shorter form Valmar. Cf. the Silmarillion: "the city of Valimar where all is glad" (Valaquenta); "in the midst of the plain beyond the mountains they [the Valar] built their city, Valmar of many bells" (chapter 1). In Namárië, the word Valimar is used = Valinor, since Valimar was its chief city (Nam, RGEO:67)
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place name. Dwelling of the Valar
City of the Valar within Aman (S/38), a compound of Vali, an archaic plural of Vala, and már “home” (SA/val, bar). It also appeared in the shorter form Valmar, which was used more frequently in The Silmarillion. The long form Valimar was used in Galadriel’s Namárië poem (LotR/377), where it was equated to the whole of the land of Valinórë.
Conceptual Development: The name ᴱQ. Valmar appears in the earliest Lost Tales with essentially the same form and meaning (LT1/74), and ᴹQ. Valmar appeared in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/12, 80; LR/111, 209). The form ᴹQ. Valimar first appeared in drafts of the Namárië poem from the 1940s (TI/285).
Element in
- Q. namárië! nai hiruvalyë Valimar “farewell! maybe thou shalt find Valimar” ✧ LotR/0378; RGEO/58
- Q. namárië! nai hiruvalyë Valimar “farewell! be-it-that you will find Valimar” ✧ RGEO/59
- Q. sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar! “now lost, lost to those from the east is Valimar!” ✧ LotR/0377; RGEO/58
- Q. sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar! “now lost is, [to one] from the East lost, Valimar!” ✧ RGEO/59
Elements
Word Gloss Vala “(Angelic) Power, ‘God’, Authority, (Angelic) Power, Authority, God” már “home, dwelling, habitation, home, dwelling, habitation; [ᴹQ.] house; earth” Variations
- Valmar ✧ MRI/Valmar; PE17/107; PMI/Valmar; RGEO/62; SI/Valmar; UTI/Valmar
- Vali-mar ✧ PE17/064
- Válimàr ✧ RGEO/58; RGEO/58
- Val(i)mar ✧ SA/bar; SA/val
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Valmar alternative form of Valimar, q.v. (Silm)