NASAG

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NASAG is an Elvish root of unknown primary signification, although its derivatives relate to "compulsion, bond".[1]

Derivatives

Other versions of the legendarium

Before undertaking a revision in the late 1960s, J.R.R. Tolkien had written (probably in 1951) that root NASAG yielded the derivative nazgwē, historically shifted to Primitive Quendian nasque ("evil spectre").[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Quenya Phonology", in Parma Eldalamberon XIX (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 17