Tavrobel
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Tavrobel or Tathrobel was a village on Tol Eressea, the home of Pengolodh when he returned to the West, and where Aelfwine saw and translated the Annals.[1]
Etymology
In the Etymologies, the name is envisioned as Noldorin and is reinterpreted to contain the Noldorin words tavr "woodpecker" and gobel "encircled village".[1][2]
Other versions of the Legendarium
Tavrobel appears in the earliest phases of the Legendarium as a town on Tol Eressëa,[3] located in the western part of the island.[4] The rivers Afros and Gruir joined at the bridge of Tavrobel.[5] Nearby the bridge was the House of the Hundred Chimneys.[6]
In Tolkien's notes, Tavrobel was later settled by Heorrenda, and it became Great Haywood.[7]
Tavrobel was also considered to be the name of a settlement in Brethil of the Woodmen and Túrin. See: Amon Obel.[1][2]
In the early Gnomish Lexicon, the name is said to mean "wood-home", including the Gnomish words taur, tavros "forest" from root TAVA; and pel said to mean "village, hamlet, -ham".[8][1]
Inspiration
Christopher Tolkien notes that real-life Great Haywood and the two Tavrobels are near the confluence of two rivers: The Great Haywood: Sow and Trent; Tavrobel of Tol Eressea: Afros and Gruir; Tavrobel of Brethil: Taiglin and Sirion.[1]
G. L. Elkin, the Acting Director of the Shugborough Estate, has further suggested to Christopher Tolkien that Gilfanon's House of Hundred Chimneys may have been based on the Shugborough Hall, which features prominent chimneys. The bridge of Tavrobel may have been based on the Essex Bridge that crosses River Trent 100 metres of its confluence with River Sow. The nearby Heath of the Sky-roof, the site of a battle among Men, was perhaps inspired by Hopton Heath, the site of the Battle of Hopton Heath.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, "Appendix: III. The Second 'Silmarillion' Map"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", entries TAM and PEL(ES)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Early Qenya and The Valmaric Script", in Parma Eldalamberon XIV (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Patrick H. Wynne, and Bill Welden), p. 62
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "Index"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part One, "VIII. The Tale of the Sun and Moon", p. 175
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "VI. The History of Eriol or Ælfwine and the End of the Tales"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part One, Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales – Part I
