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1 LOFTY
tára (tall, high); compare antara "very lofty". Also arta (exalted, noble; note that homophones mean "athwart" and also "fort"). (According to Letters:282, Varda means "Lofty" [WJ:402 has "the Sublime"], but this word should probably not be used as a common adjective.) LOFTY TOWER see TOWER. –TĀ/Silm:437/LT1:264, VT45:36, VT46:17, PM:354 -
2 HIGH
tára (lofty, tall), oro- (in compounds: oromardi "high-halls"). The element \#Ar- in Arfanyarassë (a name of Taniquetil) is said to mean "high (i.e., noble, revered)". VERY HIGH antara (with Antaro as a corresponding proper name, denoting a mountain in Valinor, VT46:17) (lofty). HIGH HEAVEN tarmenel (locative tarmeneldë also attested), HIGH PLACE \#tarmen (pl. locative tarmenissen attested), HIGH TIDE luimë (flood). –WJ:417, Nam/RGEO:66, WJ:416, VT45:5/VT46:17, VT44:34, VT48:23, 24 -
3 EXALTED
arta (lofty, noble). Note: homophones mean "athwart" and also "fort". EXALTED ONES Aratar (pl; sg \#Arata). The Aratar are the mightiest of the Valar: Manwë, Varda, Ulmo, Yavanna, Aulë, Mandos, Nienna, and Oromë. Aratar is also rendered "High Ones, The Supreme" –PM:354, Silm 32/381, WJ:402 -
4 FORT
arta (fortress) (Note: arta also means "across, athwart" as well as "exalted, lofty, noble”), ostirion –GARAT (see 3AR), TI:423 -
5 HALL
\#mardë (isolated from oromardi "lofty halls, high-halls"; the singular may also be reconstructed as \#mar with stem mard-, which would make this the same word as the word for "home" or "dwelling", q.v.); ROCKHEWN HALL hróta (artificial cave, rockhewn hall), VAULTED HALL rondo –Nam/RGEO:66, PM:365, VT39:9 -
6 NOBLE
(adj.) arta (exalted, lofty; the gloss “noble” is isolated from the use of arta in certain proper names, see relevant entries in the Quenya-English wordlist). NOBLE (noun, “a noble”) arquen. The element \#ar- in Arfanyarassë (a name of Taniquetil) is said to mean "high (i.e., noble, revered). Arquen is simply \#ar "noble" + quen "person". NOBLE WOMAN (one of Galadriel's names) Artanis. –WJ:372, WJ:416, PM:347 -
7 SUBLIME, THE
Varda (this word should probably not be used as a normal adjective. It is also translated "the Lofty".) –WJ:402 -
8 TOWER
mindon (also translated "Lofty Tower"; allative pl mindonnar or mindoninnar is attested) (turret), mindo (=isolated tower), tirion (= watchtower; also defined as "a mighty tower, a city on a hill), tirin (= tall tower; Note: a homophone means "I watch") See also TOWN WITH WALLS AND TOWERS. –LT2:346/MC:222, MINI, LT1:258, TIR
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