Re: Quenya words for "Orc" (was Re: tolkien?))
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 16:52 |
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At 21:11 15.12.2003, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> >
> > Quenya has a couple variants; etymological _urco_, pl _urqui_, and
> Sindarin-
> > influenced _orco_, pl _orqui_ or _orcor_. (This following the later info in
> > Quendi and Eldar; back in the 30s, when the Professors was writing the
> > Etymologies, _orco_ was a perfectly regular Q derivation.)
>
>Of course, Quenya didn't have a word for "Orc" at all before the Noldor
>left Aman, as there were no Orcs in Valinor. The cognate _urco_
>meant something like "nightmare" or "phantom".
There are a couple of other derivatives from RUK
which all had a similarly vague original meaning:
_rauko_ 'demon' and _rokko_ 'horse' -- the latter
because of the Dark Horseman (Sauron?) who snatched
the early Elves away to make Orks out of them.
/BP 8^)
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B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X)
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