Flame of Anor

During Gandalf's fight with the Balrog in The Lord of the Rings, he says of himself that he is the wielder of the flame of Anor. It is nowhere else referred to in the trilogy, so its particular meaning remains unclear. Anor is the Elvish word for the Sun, so literally the flame of Anor would have alluded to the light of the Sun, which had originated in the fiery fruit of Laurelin, one of the Two Trees of Valinor. Thus, Gandalf may have meant the power he gained as a servant (a Maia) of the Lords of the West, in defiance to the corrupted darkness of the Balrog.
Alternatively, Gandalf may have been referring to Narya, the Ring of Fire, which he wore and wielded, but it seems unlikely that Gandalf would want to reveal his ownership of a Ring of Power, a matter of utmost secrecy, to one of his greatest enemies. However, considering that the Balrog owed no allegiance to Sauron at that time, Gandalf may have been merely attempting to scare it away.
In Tolkien's earliest drafts, forms of this passage were variations on: "I am the master of White Flame. The Red Fire cannot come this way" (and one variation mixes in the idea of Black Shadow, too). These terms seem to be symbolic - white for the powers of good, but red or black for Sauron and his servants. As the text developed, the Red Fire and Black Shadow were lost. The White Flame remained, but developed into the more poetic flame of Anor. On this reading, then, the 'flame of Anor' doesn't refer to a specific thing, but is Gandalf's way of announcing what he stands for, or perhaps his power as a servant of the Valar.
 The History of Middle-earth, Vol. I: The Book of Lost Tales Part One, pg. 53 (Christopher Tolkien, editor. 1992)
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Vlam van Anor
Albanian 	Flaka e Anor
Arabic 	شعلة أنور
Azerbaijani 	Anor'in alov
Belarusian Cyrillic	Полымя Анора
Bosnian 	Plamena anora
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Пламъкът на Анор
Chinese 	阿诺之火
Czech 	Plamen Anoru
Danish 	Flamme af Anor
Dutch 	Vlam van Anor
Catalan 	Flama d'Anor
Esperanto 	Flamo de Anor
Estonian 	Anori leek
Fijian 	Yameyame ni Anor
Filipino 	Ningas ng Anor
Finnish 	Anorin liekki
French 	Flamme d'Anor
Galician 	Fogata de Anor
Georgian 	ანორს ფლეიმის
German 	Flamme von Anor
Greek 	Φλόγα της Ανορ
Gujarati 	એનારની જ્વાળા ?
Hebrew 	להבת אנור
Hindi 	आनोर की लौ
Hmong 	Nplaim ntawm Anor
Hungarian 	Anor lángja
Indonesian 	Nyala api Anor
Irish Gaelic 	Lasair de Anor
Italian 	Fiamma di Anor
Japanese 	アノールの焔 / アノールの炎 (varies by publisher)
Kannada 	ಅನೋರ್ನ ಜ್ವಾಲೆಯು
Kazakh 	Анор үй жалын (Cyrillic) ? jalın (Latin)
Latvian 	Anor liesmas
Lithuanian 	Anor liepsna
Luxembourgish 	Flam vun Anor
Macedonian Cyrillic	Пламен на Анор
Malaysian 	Api Bara Anor
Maltese 	Fjamma ta ' l-Anor
Maori 	Mura o Anor
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Анор-ийн дөл
Nepalese 	आनोर को ज्वाला
Norwegian 	Anorflamme
Persian 	شعله انور
Polish 	Płomień Anora
Portuguese 	Chama de Anor
Punjabi 	ਅਨੋਰ ਦੀ ਲਾਟ ?
Romanian 	Flacăra de Anor
Russian 	Пламя Анора
Serbian 	Пламен Анора (Cyrillic) Plamen Anora (Latin)
Scottish Gaelic 	Lasair de Anor
Sesotho 	Mollo oa Anor
Slovak 	Plameň Anora
Slovenian 	Plamen Anor
Spanish 	El fuego de Anor
Swahili 	Moto wa Anor
Swedish 	Anors flamma
Tamil 	ஃப்ளேம் ஆஃப் ஆநொர்
Telugu 	అనోర్ యొక్క ఫ్లేమ్
Thai 	เปลวเพลิงแห่งอานอร์
Turkish 	Anor Alevi
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Полум'я Анора
Vietnamese 	Ngọn lửa của Anor
Welsh 	Fflam o Anor
Yiddish 	פלאַם פון אַנאָר
==References==
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