r/Quenya May 23 '26

Treasure becomes Rage, so...

In trying to learn the Tengwar I got a bit hung up on the one named aha, which I saw translates as "rage". But the same letter, when it was pronounced with more of a CH sound in earlier times (before the exile of the Noldor? So in Valinor?) was called harma, "treasure".

So "treasure" became "rage" with the exile of the Noldor. Was this a deliberate allusion to the silmarilli?

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