6 Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië

[Elvellon]

Originally Posted by Findegil

I agree that we have to eliminate ‘(recalling the sound of his great horn)’ since that is contradicted by the story we have given at his arrival by the Elves.

I don't think this is a contradiction either. The footnote talks about how the Elves "made" a name for him in their Primitive Eldarin, which is supported by the 'Note on the Language of the Valar' in Quendi and Eldar, where we learn that Elves fit Valian names to their tongues by "reduction and alteration". Of Q Oromë < V Arǭmēz, we're told: "Pengolodh says that it was due to the association of the name with the native Q *rom, used of the sound of trumps or horns, seen in the Q name for the great horn of Oromë, the Vala-róma (also in Q romba ‘horn, trumpet’, S rom). ‘The Eldar,’ he says, ‘now take the name to signify “horn-blowing” or “horn-blower”; but to the Valar it had no such meaning."