Fôs' Almir
In early versions of the legendarium, Fôs' Almir (the Bath of Flame),[1] also called Faskalan, Faskala-númen (the Bath of the Setting Sun) and Tanyasalpë (the bowl of fire),[2] was a purifying bath into which Túrin and Nienóri entered.[3][1]
The bath was fashioned as a great basin with golden floor and walls of polished bronze. An "arcade of golden pillars topped with fires engirdled it" and Yavanna "set a great and nameless spell around it, so that therein was poured the most of the waters of the fruit of the noon and it became a bath of fire".[2]
Etymology[edit]
Fôs' Almir is a Gnomish name, meaning "Galmir's bath, i.e. Sun's bath".[4]
Tanyasalpë is a Qenya name, containing tanya ("fire")[5] and salpa "bowl".[6]
Other versions of the legendarium[edit]
A rejected name used in earlier texts for the bath was Fauri.[3]
Fôs' Almir appears to also have been used by Tolkien as a name for the Western Sea.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "II. Turambar and the Foalókë", pp. 115-6
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part One, "VIII. The Tale of the Sun and Moon", p. 187
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "II. Turambar and the Foalókë": "Notes and Commentary", p. 138 (§2)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue", in Parma Eldalamberon XI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne), p. 12
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Sí Qente Feanor and Other Elvish Writings", in Parma Eldalamberon XV (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Patrick H. Wynne, and Bill Welden), p. 9 (note 6)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales – Part II", p. 266
