The History of Middle-earth (chibi version) - Part 284 - Research and development

[stormwreath]

Random question (actually, something I saw being asked elsewhere online): Is there a canonical singular form of the Sindarin word 'Galadhrim'? ('Tree-folk', referring to the people of Lothlórien.) After some research I guessed at Galadhel ('tree-elf') but I'd be inrerested to know if it's been discussed already elsewhere and a consensus reached.

Comments

[stormwreath]

And I bet Vána will be ungrateful if they fail. :(

[erimthar]

So Fëanor was actually a more skilled craftsman than Aulë.

There's nothing more annoying than an egomaniac with the skills to back it up.

[stormwreath]

True to your second point - I've always seen Fëanor as not so much arrogant, as knowing for certain that he actually IS better than everybody else. (Though not at social skills.)

For the first: not really. Was Steve Jobs a better craftsman than Leonardo da Vinci because Leonardo never invented the iPhone?

[ext_2524885]

I think there is no real singular to "rim". It's just a suffix that pretty much means "the people/dwellers of"
Like most things Tolkien this has been discussed many times, aafaik there's no real census. Or the census is that there just isn't a singular, like with the word "foliage" or "water", or come to think of it "people" Sure you can say leaf, drop of water(?) and person but they aren't the singular form of the mentioned words.

Personally I think Elves would say "One of the Galadhrim"