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'''Menelvagor''' was the [[Sindarin]] name of the [[Wikipedia:constellation|constellation]] [[Wikipedia:Orion|Orion]], called [[Menelmacar]] (q.v.) in [[Quenya]].

==History==
[[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]] and his companions were spending their night with the Elves in the woods of [[the Shire]]; the Elves burst into song as Menelvagor, the [[Swordsman of the Sky]], climbed in the sky, and started the time for dinner, speech and merriment.<ref>{{FR|I3}}</ref>

==Etymology==
The name is a direct calque of the constellation's [[Quenya]] name [[Menelmacar]], "Swordsman of the Sky".<ref>{{LR|Etymologies}}</ref>

==Other versions of the legendarium==
The constellation entered into the story only in the latest phases of its composition. In earlier versions of the manuscript of'' [[The Lord of the Rings]]'' the Elves begun to sing as 'the yellow moon rose',<ref>{{HM|RS}} (p. 61)</ref> and in a later revision 'in the East the thin silver rind of the New Moon appeared'<ref>{{HM|RS}} (p. 325)</ref> due to Tolkien's calculations considering the phases of the Moon;<ref>{{HM|RS}} (cf. p. 434)</ref> still there was a fault: the Moon would not have risen from the East at that time of the year;<ref>{{HM|RS}} (p. 325)</ref> thus the Moon was finally changed to the apparition of Menelvagor and other [[stars]].
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