Comments for ARAGORN:

"Ara-" means "noble", and "gorn" means "warrior" in Sindarin.

-- Sceadufaux  1/6/2005

Aragorn: means "Lord of the Tree" (Sindarin)
ar= "high" "royal" "noble"
g= augmentive prefix
orn= "tree" - this word is found in other names such as Celeborn (Tree of Silver) and Ornendil (Lover of Trees)
*info taken from 'The Languages of Tolkein's Middle Earth' by Ruth S. Noel and from the Silmarillan

-- Cat13  1/12/2005

Aragorn means 'kingly valour' in Sindarin.

-- Anonymous User  3/6/2005

Ara- meaning noble or kingly, and the lenited Sindarin "g'orn" meaning 'of the tree', an obvious referral to the White Tree of Gondor. As earlier commented, 'gorn' also means warrior, which also fits in with Aragorn's name.

-- Theodwyn  3/14/2005

It could be me, but I pronounce this name "AR-a-Gorn", not "ER-a-Gorn" as the films showed.

-- gaelruadh19  5/12/2005

I am a big Lord of the Rings buff, and the name is pronounced ER-uh-gorn in the films, not AR-uh-gorn.

-- maxmycat  11/11/2005

I like Aragorn's Elvish name, Estel. It means "hope" in Sindarin.

-- Anonymous User  6/2/2006

Aragorn is sometimes pronounced Er-a-gorn in the Lord of the Rings movies, but I have noticed that Legolas and occasionally others sometimes call him Ar-a-gorn.

-- Eruanna_Meldiriel  6/20/2006

According to how Elvish are pronounced, it's Ah-rah-gorn. Not Eragorn. The latter is a result of anglicization of the name. But Aragorn is not English, nor American, it's Sindarin.

-- SquarePants  7/14/2006

The book 'Languages of Middle-earth' is highly inaccurate. According to latest information, the meaning is 'Royal Valour' which has been already proposed so I'd vote for it.

-- SquarePants  7/14/2006

Aragorn means, literally, "Lord of the Tree" or "Noble Tree". Ara - noble, g-augmentive prefix, orn- tree.
The Languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth. Noel Ruth S.

-- Nomedeplume  7/26/2006

Aragorn means "noble king" in Sindarin.

-- Arwen Undomiel  12/5/2006

"Aragorn" is a good name if you want to name a son after a character from Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" but I wouldn't do it without giving the poor kid a nickname, too.

-- Morwen  12/24/2006

No, no, no. Don't name your son Aragorn! It's too associated with LOTR. Nice-sounding name. But just don't.

-- Tango  2/17/2007

This actually means in Sindarin "Kingly Valour" from the elements "ara" - king - and "gorn" or "gon" - valour.

-- titan_monarch  2/21/2007

The correct pronunciation is er-a-gorn. The reason it sometimes sounds lilke Are-a-gorn when Legolas says in the movie is Orlando Bloom's accent.

-- YMPvt  4/6/2007

To shoot a couple of mistakes straight off this world:

In Parma Eldalamberon issue 17, page 113, Tolkien states Aragorn means "revered king", from ara- "royal" and ngornā "revered, dreaded". No valour, no trees.

The name is pronounced, as clearly evident from Appendix E:
Ah-(as in "say aaah" but a bit shorter)
-rh- (a trilled r)
-ah- (see previous)
-go- (as in "gold")
-rh- (see previous)
-n (no comment)
No Air, no Er, no Arrr.

-- Olof_V  11/16/2007

The correct pronunciation is AR-a-gorn. In the Sindarin langauge, according to pronunciation keys in the appendices to The Silmarillion and LOTR, vowels are pronounced long. A would be Ah, as in "father," "Bach," etc.

-- Phoenix-san  3/9/2008

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