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As one of the many instances of an aptronym in Star Wars character naming, Chancellor Finis Valorum's name suggests the end of valour and is perhaps a reference to Valorum's failure to take decisive action against the Trade Federation and to his failure to stand up to Palpatine, or perhaps literally the end of valour in the larger sense as the Sith start to take more control over the Galaxy.

Looking at the etymology of the word 'valour' from both Latin and old French, we might also interpret Finis Valorum's name to suggest an end to virtue and high values in general, and that he symbolises the crumbling of the values of the Old Republic. In Latin valorem is the accusative case of the noun valor, so in this instance if we take 'Valorum' to be an approximation of this, his surname would qualify the noun finis, suggesting a motion towards the end of virtue.

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As well as being a harbinger of the demise of a virtuous Republic, Valorum almost embodies a eulogy to those values. Whilst he in some ways represents a Neville Chamberlain type of figure in The Phantom Menace, the choice to use Pig Latin and the accusative case for his surname Valorum is perhaps also faintly reminiscent of the word 'decorum' in the final Latin lines of Wilfred Owens' First World War eulogy 'Dulce et decorum est' and calls to mind the horrors of war that his weakness will ultimately bring to the Galaxy.

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