Brand (word)
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Template:Youmay brand or brann is an Exilic Noldorin word meaning "lofty, noble, fine".[1]
Tolkien apparently used the word brann to translate "high" in a Noldorin phrase inscribed on a draft of Thrór's Map.[2][3][4]
Didier Willis has suggested that the form brand (retaining the same meaning) could be valid Neo-Sindarin.[5]
Etymology
From Primitive Quendian b’randā, root BARÁD.[1]
Compounds
Examples
- Phrase on a draft of Thrór's Map: "Lheben teil brann i annon ar neledh neledhi gar godrebh" ("Five feet high the gate and three by three they go through together"[2] or "Five feet high the door and three may walk abreast"[3][4])
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 351
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator, pp. 92, 150 (note 6)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "An Unexpected Party" (translation by Gandalf of the Old English runes on the map)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Thrór's map inscription at Jrrvf.com (accessed 27 June 2011)
- ↑ Didier Willis, Hiswelókë's Sindarin Dictionary at Jrrvf.com (accessed 30 June 2011)
