11-29-2007, 04:50 PM
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King's Writer
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From the thread General changes in TftE:
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{Salgant}[Talagant] per “The Eytmologies”. Under the stem ŃGAN-, ŃGÁNAD- ‘play (on stringed instrument)’ which produces various forms meaning ‘Harp’ or ‘harp-playing’, is found:
talagant harper (*tyalańgando), cf. Talagant [>] of Gondolin [TYAL].
Under TYAL- ‘play’ is:
Cf. tyalańgandō = harp-player (Q tyalangan): N Talagand, one of the chiefs of Gondolin (see ŃGAN).
Christopher Tolkien adds a note to ŃGAN-, ŃGÁNAD-:
Talagant appears in literary source, but cf. Salgant in the tale of The Fall of Gondolin, the cowardly but not wholly unattractive lord of the People of the Harp: II. 173, 190-1, etc.
Talgand was almost certainly Tolkien’s planed replacement form for Salgant the lord of the People of the Harp.
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Respectfully
Findegil
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