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Angol See Eriol.
Arvalin See Eruman.
Aryador This is said (p. 119) to be the name among Men of Hisilómë but according to GL it was a word of Ilkorin origin, meaning ‘land or place of shadow’ QL Arëandor, Arëanor ‘name of a mountainous district, the abode of the Shadow Folk’ (see p. 237). See Eruman.
Asgon GL has Asgon ‘name of a lake in Dor Lómin (Hisilómë), Q. Aksanda’ QL has aksa ‘waterfall’, of which the Gnomish equivalent is given as acha of the same meaning. (No light is cast on the later name Mithrim in the dictionaries.)
Aulë A word aulë ‘shaggy’ is given in QL as a derivative from a root owo (whence also oa ‘wool’, uë ‘fleece’), but without any indication that this is to be connected with the name of the Vala. The Gnomish form of his name is óla, changed to óli, without further information. In the Valar name-list Aulë is called also Tamar or Tamildo. These are given in QL without translation under root TAMA ‘smelt, forge’, with tambë ‘copper’ (the t of tilkal, p. 100), tambina ‘of copper’, tamin ‘forge’ Gnomish words are tam ‘copper’, tambin ‘of copper’, tambos ‘cauldron’. For other names of Aulë see Talka Marda.
Aulenossë For nossë ‘kin, people’ see Valinor.
Aur Gnomish name of the Sun; see Ûr.
Balrog GL defines Balrog as ‘a kind of fire-demon; creatures and servants of Melko’. With the article the form is i’Malrog, plural i’Malraugin. Separate entries give bal ‘anguish’ (original initial consonant mb-), balc ‘cruel’ and graug ‘demon’. Qenya forms are mentioned: araukë and Malkaraukë. In QL Malkaraukë with other words such as malkanë ‘torture’ are given under a root MALA (MBALA) ‘(crush), hurt, damage’, but the relation of this to MALA ‘crush, squeeze’ (see Olórë Mallë) was apparently not decided. There are also Valkaraukë and Valkanë ‘torture’, but again the relationship is left obscure.
Bráglorin Defined in the text (p. 187) as ‘the blazing vessel’, but translated in GL as ‘Golden Wain, a name of the Sun’, with a note: ‘also in analytical form i·Vreda ‘Loriol’ brada ‘waggon, wain’. For-glorin see Laurelin.
Bronweg GL has Bronweg ‘(the constant one), name of a famous Gnome’, with related words as brod, bronn ‘steadfast’, bronweth ‘constancy’. In QL Voronwë (see p. 48) ‘the faithful’ is derived from the root VORO, with vor, voro ‘ever’, voronda ‘faithful’, vorima ‘everlasting’, etc. Cf. Vorotemnar.
The common ending -weg is not given in GL, but cf. gweg ‘man’, plural gwaith.
Cüm a Gumlaith ‘The Mound of the First Sorrow’, tomb of Bruithwir, p. 149. GL cûm ‘mound, especially burial-mound’ (also cum- ‘lie’, cumli ‘couch’); gumlaith ‘weariness of spirit, grief’ (blaith ‘spirit’).
Cûm a Thegranaithos See preceding entry. GL thegra ‘first, foremost’, thegor ‘chief’ naitha- ‘lament, weep, wail for’, naithol ‘miserable’.
Danuin GL has dana ‘day (24 hours)’, with reference to Qenya sana (not in QL); Dana was an earlier reading for Danuin (p. 222). The same element appears in Lomendánar ‘Days of Gloaming’.
Dor Faidwen Gnomish dôr (< ndor-) ‘(inhabited) land, country, people of the land’ see Valinor.
Dor Faidwen is translated in the text ‘Land of Release’ (p. 13); GL has faidwen ‘freedom’ and many related words, as fair ‘free’, faith ‘liberty’, etc. In QL under root FAYA appear faire ‘free’, fairië ‘freedom’, fainu- ‘release’.
Dor Faidwen was the final Gnomish name of Tol Eressëa after many changes (p. 21), but little light can be cast on the earlier forms. Gar in Gar Eglos is a Gnomish word meaning ‘place, district’. Dor Us(g)wen: GL gives the stem us- ‘leave, depart’ (also uthwen ‘way out, exit’), and QL under root USU ‘escape’ has uswë ‘issue, escape’ and usin ‘he escapes’.
Dor Lómin See Valinor, Hisilómë.
Eärendel In an annotated list of names accompanying The Fall of Gondolin there is a suggestion, attributed to Littleheart son of Voronwë, that Eärendel had ‘some kinship to the Elfin ea and earen “eagle” and “eyrie”’, and in QL these words (both