Where Are the Aragorn and Arwen Web Sites?

steps, usually in a pompous way". We make many nouns from verbs: fly --> flyer, swim --> swimmer, run --> runner, and so forth. So the word "Strider" is naturally understood among native English speakers, but it has provided some difficulty for people whose native languages are not English. In another language the equivalent of "Stride" might be rendered as something like "He walks with big steps" (but in fewer words). To understand what telcontar means we must look at "The Etymologies", a pre-Lord of the Rings work which is partially but not wholly applicable to the Elven languages of the book. The entry for telek- gives us telko, leg. The entry for anad/anda gives us "long", as in "Anduin", "long river". It's usually translated as "Great River", but "great" in the sense of "long" or "large". So, telco + anda results in telconda, telconta: "great leg", "long leg". Bill Ferny called Aragorn "Longshanks" and in the Spanish translation of The Lord of the Rings (for example) "Strider" is translated into Grand Pas, "big step". Adding the pluralizer -r renders telcontar, "long legs". The power of Tolkien's language is further demonstrated when we take the name Telcontar and pluralize it again by adding -i. So, Aragorn took the name Elessar Telcontar and his descendants were the Telcontari, and the Quenya name can actually be understood literally. So, these are the bare essentials. I'm not saying everyone should copy what I wrote here, but if you have the books and wish to create your own Aragorn and Arwen Web sites, these facts are verifiable. You may need to dig a little to find the references. But I'm not being mean by not giving them to you. I just think the books are always well worth reading at least one more time.

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