Lassaraukar - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Makar · 02-24-2005, 10:55 PM

This may have been mentioned by someone before, but I am curious about the Lassaraukar. I have found them on the web in a couple of places, but none of them provide a reference as to which work they were mentioned in. I am making a modified D&D campaign and I am compiling a list of monsters from Tolkien and I came accross this. Can anyone help me?

radagastly · 02-24-2005, 11:23 PM

This thread is the only one I found about it here on the 'Downs on a quick search. It seems to be a role-playing invention, rather than a Tolkien invention, though I could be wrong. I've never heard of them before.

Estelyn Telcontar · 02-25-2005, 04:32 AM

I took a quick look into Foster's Complete Guide to Middle-Earth as well as my big German Tolkien Encyclopedia and found no reference to 'lassaraukar' in either, so I would assume that they are indeed an invention and do not originate in Tolkien's writings.

A_Brandybuck · 02-25-2005, 08:12 AM

I doubt as the rest here, that there exists some "lassaraukar" in the original writings.
The word himself seems to be generated from "original" Quenya words and perhaps means "Leaf-demons" . Based on the word "lasse", which means leaf and "rauco" (pl. "raukar"), which means "demon".

I doubt, that the word-creation is original from Tolkien, because the using of the word "lasse" (if it should really mean "leaf") in the word "lassaraukar" fits not the Quenya-grammar. The word should have been "lasseraukar" ("Leaf-demons", nominativus) or "lasseoraukar" ("demons of leaf", genetivus).
Or in plural: "lassiraukar" (nom.) or lassionraukar (gen.).

Elrian · 02-25-2005, 08:51 PM

Translated another name for the Legolas fangirls?

02-24-2005, 10:55 PM	#1
Makar Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Oklahom Posts: 44	Lassaraukar This may have been mentioned by someone before, but I am curious about the Lassaraukar. I have found them on the web in a couple of places, but none of them provide a reference as to which work they were mentioned in. I am making a modified D&D campaign and I am compiling a list of monsters from Tolkien and I came accross this. Can anyone help me?

02-24-2005, 11:23 PM	#2
radagastly Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Washington, D. C., USA Posts: 299	This thread is the only one I found about it here on the 'Downs on a quick search. It seems to be a role-playing invention, rather than a Tolkien invention, though I could be wrong. I've never heard of them before. __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before, I listen for returning feet and voices at the door.

02-25-2005, 04:32 AM	#3
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	I took a quick look into Foster's Complete Guide to Middle-Earth as well as my big German Tolkien Encyclopedia and found no reference to 'lassaraukar' in either, so I would assume that they are indeed an invention and do not originate in Tolkien's writings. __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

02-25-2005, 08:12 AM	#4
A_Brandybuck Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 95	I doubt as the rest here, that there exists some "lassaraukar" in the original writings. The word himself seems to be generated from "original" Quenya words and perhaps means "Leaf-demons" . Based on the word "lasse", which means leaf and "rauco" (pl. "raukar"), which means "demon". I doubt, that the word-creation is original from Tolkien, because the using of the word "lasse" (if it should really mean "leaf") in the word "lassaraukar" fits not the Quenya-grammar. The word should have been "lasseraukar" ("Leaf-demons", nominativus) or "lasseoraukar" ("demons of leaf", genetivus). Or in plural: "lassiraukar" (nom.) or lassionraukar (gen.). __________________ „I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

02-25-2005, 08:51 PM	#5
Elrian Eldar Spirit of Truth Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Land of the FREE, Home of the BRAVE Posts: 794	New meaning Translated another name for the Legolas fangirls? __________________ ~Call me a relic, call me what you will. Say I'm old fashioned , say I'm over the hill. That old whine ain't got no soul. I'll stick to Old Toby and a Hobbit hole.~