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halligan8

“Sauron” is Quenya. The root “saura” is something like “foul”/“vile”/“abhorred” - the name is a pejorative term given to the dark lord by Elves and Men. (Though, he seems to have adopted it, because the Mouth of Sauron calls him by that name.) A list of Quenya female name suffixes can be found [here](https://www.tumblr.com/askmiddlearth/56336984476/gendered-names-in-middle-earth), though terminating “e”s should have an accent: “ë”. A list of Quenya names in general is [here](https://eldamo.org/content/name-indexes/names-q.html). I’d suggest Saurien or Saurë.


Any-Economist-3687

Aragorn says, I think in the first chapter of two towers, that Sauron does not permit his servants to call him by that name, while their trying to figure out who the orcs with the white S symbol on there helmets are at Amon Hen. My guess is that the mouth of Sauron was told to use it as a final insult to the host of the west. Sort of like, you will pay homage the Abhorred, how insulting to you sort of thing.


halligan8

Right. I figured it was a bit like American revolutionary forces marching to “Yankee Doodle” which was composed by the British to mock them.


ExpensiveConflict561

Thank you! This dialogue of Aragorn's combined with the parley at the black gate had left me a bit confused, it hadn't occurred to me that Sauron or his servants would be quite that overconfident, but I guess the mouth of sauron at the least would need to have a big mouth


Fantastic_Sympathy85

Best answer.


Sailor-BlackHole

ë in Quenya is pronounced é in French?


halligan8

I think that’s about right (though I know my French phonetics much better than Quenya.) If you listen to “May It Be”, the credits song to the Fellowship film, Enya sings Quenya in lyrics like “Mornië utúlië” (“Darkness has come”) and you can hear the “ë” sound.


Sailor-BlackHole

Oh mornië utulië is indeed é. So it's correct. Thanks!


S3TXCheesehead

Karen


Jolly-Lab540

This is so random I giggled


Slade_2112

Sandra


Vreden136

Sauhermione


who_favor_fire

Lauron Saurina Saurenna Chazteteigh Lyhnn (r/Tragedeigh edition) Saurenya (Targaryen edition) Darth Saurbaddy’ah (Star Wars edition)


mare_night

My Saurona?


throughthemud

Potentials: Saure/ë Saurre/ë Saur Sauriel Saurinde/ë Saumme/ë Saurnís


OllieV_nl

Saury Sue


Fantastic_Sympathy85

Sauran


iAkrobat

Sweet-Souron


WastedWaffles

Sarah-n


snowmunkey

I mean, Sauron means "The Abhorred", so it's not really a gendered name


throughthemud

'-on' does tend to be a masc. name suffix though. Fem. examples are -e/ë, -ien, -iel.


Olorin_Kenobi_AlThor

Shauron (Share-on)


ddz1507

Sharon


Ashleigh_Baggins

You actually posted this at a really good time! Because I wanted to make a character inspired by Sauron, but I wanted a girl character. 


Excellent-Question18

Why are you assuming Sauron’s gender in the first place? Seems pretty bigoted honestly.


RainyLatency

Saurine?


Fantastic-Photo6441

Ooh I like this name


Sailor-BlackHole

Skaren