The similarity between Estel (elven for "hope") and the name Este struck me too (guess why?!), but I think they are linguistically unrelated. Este is one of the Valier, the seven Queens of the Valar. She is the "healer of hurts and of weariness" and "rest is her gift", according to the Valaquenta in the Silmarillion. I don't know if "Estel" is Quenya or Sindarin, but the two words, though similar, probably have no direct connection.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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