We tend to use it to mean “just”. Tolkien tends to use it to mean “beautiful”. In Elvish these are two entirely different words. So when you look up “fair” you’ll have to go to the Elvish dictionary to see that you’ve got the right one.Consider the nightmare(噩梦) of He...
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adapted from Valarin (WJ:399), though in other versions in Turambar (SA:amarth); stem ambart- (PE17:66), Tolkien cited an Elvish etymology (cf. VT49:26-27). Place- instrumental ambartanen "by doom" (Silm ch. 21, UT: name Aman the Blessed Realm, from the stem mān- 138, PE...