I had the same idea for a thread, you beat me
i have always been a fan of JRR Tolkien, i was once looking for weird names to use as a user name somewhere else, since i love tolkien i thought i could use one of his names, i found daeron, so i thought i would use it, it sounded nice to me, i tried to use it then as a user name but someone else had already used it, so instead of using the letter "O" i thought, well, i wont give up on it just cause someone else is already using it, so i used a zero, instead of the letter and it worked, it has been my user name everywhere for a long long time, an the meaning is:
Daeron
Minstrel of Thingol. Called the 'piper of Doriath.' He was the son of Thingol and Melian, and therefore the brother of Lúthien. When Lúthien wished to leave Doriath to search for Beren, he betrayed her to Thingol who locked her in Hirilorn. When she escaped, Daeron followed her, but got lost in the Mountains of Night. He then went to Palisor where he now plays lonely and wistful music. Previously called Dairon. It was he who first devised the writing system of the Elves, called the Cirth.
The name
Daeron was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien for the chief minstrel to the king of the grey elves who lived in Beleriand during the first age of the sun of Middle-earth. It is engraved at the top of the page in Angerthas letters, which Daeron is said to have organized into a Sindarin alphabet. The grey elves spoke the Sindarin tongue, for which Tolkien gave us a definitive pronunciation guide.
The consonants are pronounced as in English, or close enough. If you want to be precise, roll the
r a bit. The vowels are pronounced as follows:
- a as in father
- e as in bed
- o in between the long and short o of English, like they are in most Germanic languages
OK. But actually, the
a and
e form a diphthong together; i.e., you morph the
a into the
e. Think about the long
i sound in English. It's the diphthong
a as in
father, moving to a long
e sound.
Dae in
Daeron sounds like the English word
die to an English speaker's ear, but it's softer. Instead of sliding all the way to the long
e sound, stop at a short
e. It feels funny at first because we don't use that diphthong in English anymore. Practice it a time or two. There, by Ulmo, you've got it!
it is also:
Mellonath Daeron is the language guild of Forodrim, both founded in 1972. We study the languages created by Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, in particular Quenya and Sindarin, and the writing systems known as tengwar and cirth. A few results of our efforts are available on these pages.
One of our efforts is to compile indexes of all samples of tengwar and cirth written by Tolkien: the DTS and the DCS (the Mellonath Daeron Tengwar / Cirth Specimina). We do this to help all who want to study these writing systems. If you know of any published script sample by Tolkien which is not in these indexes, please let us know.
An example of the High-elven language
Nelde Cormar Eldatárin nu Tarmenel,
Otso Herunaucoin hrótassen ondova,
Nerte FÃrimoin marte nurunen,
Er i More Herun mormahalmas hárala
Morinóreva mà arda, már i fuinion.
Er Corma ilyar turien ar tuvien te,
Er Corma tucien ar móresse nutien te
Morinóreva mà arda, már i fuinion.
I forgot to add, my real name is Nurinia
