Rôs
Rôs was the name of a promontory in the Great Lands, according to the early version of the legendarium in some of the outlines for the continuation of The Book of Lost Tales.[1]
It was the place of the great Battle of Rôs during the Faring Forth, in which the Elves were defeated.[1] While the precise location of the promontory is unknown, Christopher Tolkien suggests that it might be identified with Brittany, a peninsula and region in modern day France.[2]
There is evidence that the Gnomes living there possessed their own unique dialect.[3]
Etymology[edit | edit source]
The name Rôs is in Gnomish. The Gnomish Lexicon glosses it as "the Sea; the all-embracing, the surrounding", with its Qenya cognate being Rása.[4] However, it seems that this meaning of the name is another, different one from that mentioned in the main section of the article above.[5]
Another possible origin of the name Rôs, might lie in the village of Roos in Yorkshire, near which Tolkien was stationed in 1917-1918.[3]
The name Roos probably means either "moor" or "promontory" - with its Welsh, Breton and Irish cognates being rhôs ("moor, heath, plain"), ros ("hillock") and ros ("promontory"), respectively.[3]
Other versions of the legendarium[edit | edit source]
In other, later outlines, Rôs was either the name of the capital of the Elves of Tol Eressëa, or perhaps a name for Tol Eressëa itself.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "VI. The History of Eriol or Ælfwine and the End of the Tales", p. 283
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "VI. The History of Eriol or Ælfwine and the End of the Tales", p. 285
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, "I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue", in Parma Eldalamberon XI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne), p. 6
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue", in Parma Eldalamberon XI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne), p. 65
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales – Part II", p. 347
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "VI. The History of Eriol or Ælfwine and the End of the Tales", p. 302
