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Meaning & History
Means "sun maiden" in the fictional language Quenya, derived from Quenya árë meaning "sun" or "day" and -ien meaning "maiden" or simply a feminine suffix. It also later gained the meaning "daisy" in Sindarin, another Elvish language. In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion (published posthumously in 1977), Arien is the Maia (angelic being) who sails the sun across the sky.