Can Haladin be a play on Saladin, the Muslim leader that fought against the
Crusaders? His language is sundered from that of Beor, so in my mind, he
is not of the same peoples of Beor and Malach, perhaps from around Harad?
Beor to me is a take on Beorn, a warrior man.
However, I am a mathmematics major and work on computers, so my linguistic
abilities are suspect
:)
***************************************
Then Morgoth hurled aloft Grond, the Hammer of the Underworld, and swung it down like a bolt of thunder. But Fingolfin sprang aside, and Grond rent a mighty pit in the earth, whence smoke and fire darted. Many times Morgoth essayed to smite him, and each time Fingolfin leaped away, as a lightning shoots from under a dark cloud; and he wounded Morgoth with seven wounds, and seven times Morgoth gave a cry of anguish, whereat th hosts of Angband fell upon their faces in dismay, and cries echoed in the Northlands.
-- Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin
The Silmarillion
