Among the Elves, the great hunter Oromë was connected with the forests where he hunted, both in the south of Valinor, and also in Middle-earth (where he came more often than the other Valar). For this reason he was known in Quenya as Aldaron, 'Lord of Trees', and in Sindarin by the related title Tauron, meaning 'Lord of Forests'.
Oromë's title of Aldaron 'Lord of Trees' appears in the published Silmarillion, but in fact there is some doubt over its canonicity. In notes to The Later Quenta Silmarillion in volume X of The History of Middle-earth, Christopher Tolkien observes that this title and its meaning were removed from one version to the next, and therefore that his father did not apparently intend for it to appear in the final text.
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