Appendix:Quenya/Mairon

Proper Noun

 * 1) the Admirable, ancient name of Sauron

Usage notes
changed when he was suborned by Melkor, “but he continued to call himself Mairon the Admirable, or Tar-mairon ‘King Excellent’, until after the downfall of Númenor”. We are perhaps to understand that Mairon is a translation by sense of Sauron’s original Valarin name.