Stewardship - Theme for Feb - March

[Tuilinde]

Thanks to Huanarmo for suggesting "Stewardship" as a theme for February and March. It has already got me thinking.

So the first question is - Do you think using the word ortírië, which is listed as patronage would in the right context also be understood as stewardship? Helge postulates a verb #ortir to look after, care for, protect, and that's as near to what a steward should do as I can find.

I'm accumulating vocabulary as I work - my usual method - and there is nothing I can find for task or work. At the moment I'm using carda:- deed, and may use móta:- toil, labour n. If anyone has any other suggestions I'd be grateful.

[Aran]

[órerámar]

[Aran]

[atwe]

If we are talking specifically about the Steward of Gondor, I feel that the Gondorians would use the word tar somewhere in there, perhaps simply as *tarcundo or maybe *tarandur (although the latter carries a broader meaning). (Sindarin *archon?)

[órerámar]

[Aran]

[findegil]

[Tuilinde]

What a wealth of ideas! Thanks for all the suggestions and for all I'm learning in the process. My poem, if it ever gets done, is about the work of the Valar and their stewardship of Arda, and themselves as stewards of Eru. What difference might that make to the choice of words?

[órerámar]