Eldamo : Sindarin : palan

S. palan adv. “afar, abroad, far and wide” (Category: Far)

S. palan, adv. “afar, abroad, far and wide” (Category: Far): G. baron¹ “from home, out, away, abroad”; G. restu “out of land, abroad, away from home”

A word for “afar” in the song A Elbereth Gilthoniel from the phrase na-chaered palan-díriel “to lands remote I have looked afar”, and also the phrase o menel palan-diriel “from heaven gazing far” (LotR/238; RGEO/63-64). In The Road Goes Ever On (RGEO) from 1967, Tolkien indicated the actual meaning was “abroad, far and wide” (RGEO/64). S. palan is equivalent to Q. palan of similar meaning, and was probably borrowed directly from Quenya (PE17/25). The main evidence for borrowing is that the ancient final n was not lost as was usually the case in Sindarin; compare S. êl vs. Q. elen “star”.

References ✧ Let/279; LotR/238, 729; PE17/25; RGEO/63-64

Glosses

“afar” ✧ RGEO/63; RGEO/64
“afar, abroad, far and wide” ✧ RGEO/64

Element In

ᴺS. !palan-hinnen “famous, *(lit.) widely-known”
S. na-chaered palan-díriel “to lands remote I have looked afar” ✧ LotR/238; RGEO/63; RGEO/64
S. o menel palan-diriel “from heaven gazing far” ✧ LotR/729; RGEO/64
S. palan-díriel “far-gazer” ✧ PE17/25

Cognates

Q. palan “far (and wide), afar, distant” ✧ PE17/25

Derivations

< √PAL “wide, broad, extended”