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Ambar

From Tolkien Gateway

ambar (gen. *ambarto) means "doom" in Quenya.

[edit] Etymology

Possibly from PQ *ambarata < root MBARAT^[1]

[edit] Examples

• Ambaráto, "Champion of Doom"
• Turambar, "Master of Doom"
• martya

[edit] Other forms

The full stem seems to be *ambart-

• ambartanen^[2] "by doom"
• Umbar

[edit] Cognates

• Sindarin, amarth

[edit] Ambar

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

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

[edit] Etymology

Root A-MBAR "dwelling, habitation"^[1]

[edit] Cognates

• Sindarin amar "earth", bar "land"

[edit] See also

• már, "home, dwelling"
• Ambar-metta, "the Ending of the World"

[edit] 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, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, The Etymologies, p. 372
2. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, Of Túrin Turambar
3. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 283