The Vala titled Oromë the Hunter, Lord of Forests is also
called:
Aldaron (Quenya "Lord of Trees"; from alda
"trees", possibly rom "sound
of horns or trumpets")
Tauron (Sindarin "The Forester", "Lord of
Forests")
Araw (Sindarin).
Oromë (Quenya "horn-blowing")
Béma
Silmarillion:
Although he is not quite so strong as Tulkas,
he has anger
more dreadful.
Oromë is fourth of the Lords of the Valar,
eighth of
the Aratar.
He loves the lands of Middle-earth, hunting monsters
and fell
beasts. He left Middle-earth unwillingly to enter Valinor, and returns
to visit Middle-earth crossing the mountains into the hills and plains.
He especially loves forests.
Oromë delights in horses, hounds, and
trees.
He trains his folk and beasts in the woods to hunt the evil creatures
of
Melkor.
His wife is Vana, the Ever-young, the younger
sister of Yavanna.
Oromë's horse, Nahar, is white and his hooves
were
shod
with gold when Oromë rode at the head of the elves leading them to
Valinor.
Nahar is white in the sun and silver at night.
His musical hunting horn is the
Valaróma.
Lord of the Rings:
The ride of Theoden in "The Ride of the Rohirrim" is
compared to Oromë's: "...he was
borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in
the battle of the Valar when the world was young".
Denethor, speaking to Gandalf, tells that the Horn
of Gondor used by Boromir had a long history. "...Vorondil father of Mardil hunted the wild
kine of Araw in the far fields of Rhûn". In the Appendix
of the Return of the King
a note tells us that legend says that the wild kine near the Sea of
Rhûn were "descended from the
Kine of Araw, the huntsman of the Valar, who alone of the Valar came
often to Middle-earth in the Elder Days. Oromë is the High-elven
form of his name." High-elven is Quenya Elvish.
References:
Return of
the King "The Ride of the Rohirrim", "Minas Tirith", "Appendix A
iii The North Kingdom and the Dunedain"
Silmarillion: Valaquenta "Of the
Valar",
"Index of Names", "Appendix"
Nahar: Silmarillion, "Of the Coming of the
Elves", "Of the Valar".
Image: "Oromë". Riding Nahar in Middle-earth. Artist Guy Gondron. Rolozo's Tolkien page.
