Azanulbizar
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Azanulbizar is a Khuzdul name for the valley between two arms of the Misty Mountains, and means "Dimrill Dale".
It is called Nanduhirion by the Elves.
[edit] Etymology
Tolkien explored various possibilities regarding the exact interpretation of the elements occurring in the name: it is either Azanul+bizar or Azan+ûl+bizar though the whole was to somehow express "Dimrill Dale".
Tolkien stated that "the Common Speech form is an accurate translation: the valley of the dim (overshadowed) rills that ran down the mountainside"[1]. In another point it is given as "Vale of Dim Streams" with three elements[2].
The first interpretation says that azan "shadows, dimnesses", -ul genitive marker and bizar "streams, rills"; in this interpretation it means "rills of shadows", and the word "dale" is understood (the full name being duban Azanulbizar).[3]
According to the second interpretation, bizar "dale" and ul "rill(s), streams"[2].
References
- ↑ A Tolkien Compass p. 182
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Return of the Shadow p. 466
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion p. 269
