Having too much fun....
Looks like I'm approaching this in the Tolkienian manner - by accident, I assure you! I decided to start with the name, and chose a series of possible English language meanings that appealed to me, then looked up the Adūnaic cognates, and finally the Sindarin, and decided which combination in all three languages most appealed in terms of the character.
Adūnaic to English
abār "strength, endurance, fidelity" (431). Evidently related to bār "lord".
pā "hand" (< *pa3a), pl. pāi (416, 426)
naru "man, male" (434, fully inflected in 437, that also gives an alternative form narū)
*magān *"wright", isolated from Ar-Balkumagān, q.v.
karab "horse" (pl. karīb) (434). Masculine karbū "stallion" (434, 435), feminine karbī "mare" (434).
ZIR "love", desire" (423), cf. -zīr "lover" in Nimruzīr.
zadan "house", fully inflected in 430.
Adūnaic - English - Sindarin
Karķbzīr - Lover of horses - Melethroch
Abārpā - Strong/True Hand - Mabalar
Zadanmagān - Housewright - Cardhįn
My choice
Abārpānaru Karķbzīr - Strong Handed Man Lover of Horses; Mabalar Melethroch
The first name is the character's personal name, the second is the name of his House. Now to build the physical, and find out how the Melethroch family relates to the line of Elros!
Last edited by littlemanpoet; 01-22-2005 at 08:53 AM.
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