Eärendil

ay-AHR-en-dill

Literary name

"lover of the sea"

Eärendil Origin and Meaning

The name Eärendil is a boy's name meaning "lover of the sea".

In The Lord of the Rings, Eärendil is a half-Elven seafarer whose ship turns into a star. J.R.R. Tolkien based his name off of the Anglo-Saxon Ēarendel, a variation of Aurvandill, a Germanic mythological character.