BAN

BAN is a Primitive Quendian root with two different significations. BAN[1] signifies "fair, beautiful", originally having "referred simply to 'beauty' — but with implication that it was due to lack of fault, or blemish". BAN[2] signifies "meet, come up against".

Tolkien experimented with the idea that BAN was related to MAN ("good").

Derivatives of BAN[1]

Quenya: Vána; vanya; linda; vanima ("beautiful"); úvano, úvanimo
Sindarin: bân, bain ("blessed, fair, favourable, good, without evil/bad element"); gwain ("blond")

Derivatives of BAN[2]

Sindarin: govannen

Other versions of the legendarium

In the Qenya Lexicon appears the root VANA-, yielding Qenya vane ("fair, lovely"). In the Etymologies appears the root BAN-, yielding Quenya vanya ("beautiful"), vanima ("fair"), úvanimo ("monster"), etc.

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