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Nebrachar was a place of Orcs[1] that appears in a poem written by J.R.R. Tolkien that he used as an example of language invention in his lecture A Secret Vice.[2]
Etymology
The meaning of Nebrachar is not known, but Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins speculated in A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages that the name might mean "near a place of slaughter" from the Noldorin roots NEB ("near")[3] and RHACH ("carnage, slaughter")[4].[5]
References
- ↑ A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, Part III, "The Manuscripts", "[BODLEIAN TOLKIEN MS. 24 FOLIOS 50–2 RECTO:]"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays, "A Secret Vice", pp. 217, 220 (note 11)
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Alphabet of Rúmil & Early Noldorin Fragments", in Parma Eldalamberon XIII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Patrick H. Wynne, and Bill Welden), p. 164
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Alphabet of Rúmil & Early Noldorin Fragments", in Parma Eldalamberon XIII (edited by Carl F. Hostetter, Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Patrick H. Wynne, and Bill Welden), p. 152
- ↑ A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, Part I, A Secret Vice, "Notes", (note 81)