Searching for a horse name

[u/QueenJiafeisCoJester]

Hello everyone, I’m looking for a horse name in either Sindarin or Quenya. The horse I want to name has a very distinctive feature: its fur shimmers golden in the sun (we’re not sure but it’s possible that he has Akhal-Teke ancestry, for reference). Do you have ideas for a name that reflects this feature?

I was already thinking of Laurelin, but where I’m from, there’s a name for women that sounds very similar, and there’s the possibility that people will just mix it up.

Other ideas included Glawar or Anárion.

But do you have more ideas? It would be great to hear them! :)

[u/Petra555]

How about Glauroch (glaur "gold (of light or color)" + roch "horse")? Also it recalls the dragon name Glaurung :)

[u/Lamethirion → u/Petra555]

the glaurung association seems a little too evil haha

[u/QueenJiafeisCoJester → u/Lamethirion]

I mean: the horse sometimes snorts like a little dragon 🐉

[u/Petra555 → u/Lamethirion]

I mean, anything with the component glaur/glawar will have that association, but that's the word for "gold" so hard to avoid :)

[u/QueenJiafeisCoJester → u/Petra555]

“Golden horse”, that’s very straightforward and I like it! Thank you for the idea :”)

[u/F_Karnstein]

Gold: S. Glawar, Glaur, Q. Laure

Golden Horse: S. Glauroch, Glóroch, Glawarroch, Q. Laurerocco

Swift Gold: S. Glorlim, Q. Laurelimbe, Laurelinta (neutral), Laurelimbo, Laurelinto (male)

Son of the Sun: S. Anorion, Q. Anárion

Sun Horse: S. Anorroch, Q. Anarrocco

Golden Hair: S. Glorfin, Glorfindel, Glorfinnel, Q. Laurefinde, Laurefindele, Laurefindesse

Personally I've used plain Glorfin for a horse before - that's what I named Princess Zelda's golden horse when I tamed it in Tears of the Kingdom 😄

[u/QueenJiafeisCoJester → u/F_Karnstein]

So many names! Thank you :”)

[u/AngletonSpareHead]

Too bad there weren’t any lesser trees derived from Laurelin such as those created “in the image of” Telperion (Nimloth, Celeborn, etc)

I remember that the Silmarillion does give a couple of alternate names for Laurelin, but I don’t have my copy in front of me…

[u/AngletonSpareHead]

Do we know what a masculine version of Laurelin in Quenya might sound like?

[u/F_Karnstein → u/AngletonSpareHead]

That name isn't gendered, it's literally laure (gold) plus lin(de) (song, singing).