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([[Quenya|Q]]. 'home, world' or 'doom')  
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'''''ambar''''' means "doom" in [[Quenya]].<ref name=PE17>{{PE|17}}, p. 66</ref>
==Etymology==
*[[Sundocarme|Root]] MBART ("doom, fate").<ref name=PE17/><ref name="E">{{LR|Etymologies}}, p. 372</ref>
==Examples==
* [[Ambaráto]], "Champion of Doom"
* [[Túrin|Turambar]], "Master of Doom"
*[[martya]]
*[[Umbar (word)|umbar]]


The World, having the sense of "habitation" for the [[Elves]], rendered by [[Tolkien]] with the Greek term [[Oicumene]] which is another term for Earth and means 'home, habitation'. The term maybe was not synonym to [[Arda]], since it referred properly to the mass of solid Earth, while Arda contained the upper airs and celestial bodies, according to the [[Elvish]] cosmology. Ambar was originally flat and below it there was a great expanse of rock and caves, till the [[Downfall of Númenor]] and the [[Change of the World]] when it became round.
==Cognates==
*[[Sindarin]], ''[[amarth]]''


Ambar can also be seen meaning 'doom' as in [[Turambar]] (Master of Doom).
=Ambar=
[[File:Sage - Arda in the Second Age.png|thumb|The flat World during the [[Second Age]]]]
'''''Ambar''''' also refers to "The World" with the connotation of "habitation" or "home" ("[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oikumene Oikoumene]"<ref>{{HM|L}}, [[Letter 283]]</ref>), which referred to the inhabited world, as opposed to the barbaric wild.  


[[Category:Locations]]
In this sense ''Ambar'' is different than ''[[Arda]]'', which refers to the world as a physical whole.
[[Category:Quenya words]]
==Etymology==
[[Sundocarmë|Root]] A-[[MBAR]] "dwelling, habitation"<ref name="E" />
==Cognates==
*[[Sindarin]] ''[[amar]]'' "earth", ''[[bar]]'' "land"
==See also==
*[[már]], "home, dwelling"
* [[Ambar-metta]], "the Ending of the World"
==Notes==
The [[Elves]] may have equated the concept of "doom" with the inhabited world because their ''[[fëar]]'' were tied eternally with Arda, as opposed to [[Men]], whose souls escape beyond the world upon death (see: the [[Gift of Men]]).
 
Furthermore, the roots MBAR and MBAR-AT might be ultimately related.
 
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ambar means "doom" in Quenya.[1]

Etymology

Examples

Cognates

Ambar

The flat World during the Second Age

Ambar also refers to "The World" with the connotation of "habitation" or "home" ("Oikoumene"[3]), which referred to the inhabited world, as opposed to the barbaric wild.

In this sense Ambar is different than Arda, which refers to the world as a physical whole.

Etymology

Root A-MBAR "dwelling, habitation"[2]

Cognates

See also

Notes

The Elves may have equated the concept of "doom" with the inhabited world because their fëar were tied eternally with Arda, as opposed to Men, whose souls escape beyond the world upon death (see: the Gift of Men).

Furthermore, the roots MBAR and MBAR-AT might be ultimately related.


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 66
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", p. 372
  3. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 283
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