Sangahyando
| Sangahyando | |
|---|---|
| Gondorian | |
| Biographical Information | |
| Location | Umbar |
| Affiliation | Corsairs of Umbar |
| Family | |
| House | House of Anárion |
| Parentage | unknown; great-grandson of Castamir |
| Physical Description | |
| Gender | Male |
Sangahyando was one of the great-grandsons of Castamir the Usurper.[1]
History[edit]
He and Angamaitë, another great-grandson of Castamir, were leaders of the Corsairs of Umbar.[2] The name Sangahyando was possibly not his birth name, but a personal warrior name (or nickname). There was no need to assert his royal descent with this name, because his royal descent was clear.[3]
Angamaitë and Sangayando learned through spies that Minardil, the King of Gondor, was in the Gondorian port of Pelargir and that he suspected no peril since his father had crushed Harad and Umbar.[2] In T.A. 1634[4][5] the Corsairs of Umbar, led by Angamaitë and Sangayando, made a raid up the river Anduin, killed king Minardil in Pelargir[1], ravaged Pelargir[4][5] and the coasts and escaped with great booty.[2]
Etymology[edit]
Sangahyando is a Quenya name. It literally means "Throng-cleaver"[3] (said to be interpretable as "hewer of hostile ranks"). The first element in the name is sanga ("press" or "throng") and the second element is hyando ("cleaver").[6] A throng is a closely formed body of enemy soldiers.[7]
Genealogy[edit]
| Calimehtar unknown | |||||||||||||||
| Castamir 1259 - 1447† | |||||||||||||||
| sons unknown† | |||||||||||||||
| Angamaitë fl. 1634 | SANGAHYANDO fl. 1634 | ||||||||||||||
Other versions of the legendarium[edit]
In the manuscripts for what would later become appendix A and appendix B and in the first edition of The Lord of the Rings his name was Sangahyanda.[5][2] His name was changed to Sangahyando in the second edition of The Lord of the Rings.[8][6]
In the Etymologies, Qenya sangahyando ("throng-cleaver") is said to be the name of a sword.[9][10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion", entry for king Telemnar
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "VII. The Heirs of Elendil", manuscript C, The Heirs of Elendil, The Southern Line of Gondor: the Anarioni, 25. Minardil, p. 199
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 347, (dated 17 December 1972)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age", entry for the year 1634
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "VIII. The Tale of Years of the Third Age", manuscript T4, entry for the year 1634
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 116 entry Q Sangahyanda
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien; Humphrey Carpenter, Christopher Tolkien (eds.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 347, (dated 17 December 1972)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "VII. The Heirs of Elendil", Commentary relating to the entry for king Minardil in manuscript B, p. 215
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies", pp. 388-9 (entries for STAG- and SYAD-)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part Two" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 46, July 2004, p. 16
