Tarkil
tarkil is a Quenya word, used in the Common Tongue as a name for a Man of Númenórean descent.
The Orcs corrupted the word, and used tark as an insulting term for a Gondorian.
The spelling Tarcil is used for the name of the sixth King of Arnor.
Etymology
In the Etymologies, tark derives from Primitive Quendian tāra-khil (roots TUR and KHIL). It has been suggested that tarkil means "literally 'high follower' ([since] the Elves referred to Men as followers because they were the Afterborn Children of Ilúvatar)".
Other versions of the legendarium
In The Lord of the Rings, the word appears only in a footnote (added in the Allen & Unwin second edition, 1966) in Appendix F. However, at one time it was destined for more prominence: in the early drafts of the work, Aragorn himself is known as "the Tarkil", but this was changed to "the Dúnadan" in the published text.
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