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Glorvent For the element Glor- see Laurelin.—GL had Glorben(d) ‘ship of gold’, changed later to Glorvent ‘boat of gold’ benn ‘shape, cut, fashion’, benc, bent ‘small boat’. QL has the root VENE ‘shape, cut out, scoop’, with derivatives venië, venwë ‘shape, cut’ and venë ‘small boat, vessel, dish’. Cf. the title of the ‘World-Ship’ drawing, I Vene Kemen (see p. 85), and the Sun’s name i·Kalaventë (Kalavénë).

Golfinweg See Nólemë, Finwë.

Gondolin QL does not give this name, but ondo ‘stone’ appears under root ONO ‘hard’. In GL Gondolin is said to="Qenya" Ondolin (changed to Ondolinda) ‘singing stone’. There is also an entry gond ‘great stone, rock’ later this was changed to gonn, and a note added that Gondolin-Gonn Dolin, together with an entry dólin ‘song’. See Lindelos.

Gong GL gives no other information beyond that cited on p. 245, note 10, but compares sithagong ‘dragonfly’ (sitha ‘fly’, Sithaloth or Sithaloctha (‘fly-cluster’), the Pleiades).

Gonlath This is the name of the great rock on Taniquetil to which Fanuin’s cable was tied (p. 219); the second element must therefore be Gnomish lath ‘a year’, which appears also in the rejected names for Fanuin, Lathos and Lathweg (p. 222). For Gon- see Gondolin.

Gwerlum This is given in GL with the translation ‘Gloomweaver’ gwer- ‘wind, turn, bend’, but also used in the sense of the root gwidh- ‘plait, weave’. QL has a root GWERE ‘whirl, twirl, twist’, but the name Wirilómë of the great Spider is placed under the root GWIDI, whence also windelë ‘loom’, winda ‘woof’, wistë ‘weft’. The name of the great eddy Wiruin (p. 167), not in the dictionaries, must belong here. For the element- lómë, -lum see Hisilómë.

Haloisi Velikë (On the ‘World-Ship’ drawing, p. 84.) In QL haloisi ‘the sea (in storm)’ is given under a root HALA, with other derivatives haloitë ‘leaping’, halta- ‘to leap’.

To Qenya velikë ‘great’ corresponds Gnomish beleg ‘mighty, great’ (as in Beleg the Bowman in the tale of Túrin).

Helkar QL under root HELE has helkë ‘ice’, helka ‘ice-cold’, hilkin ‘it freezes’, halkin ‘frozen’. GL has helc, heleg ‘ice’, hel- ‘freeze’, heloth ‘frost’, etc., and helcor ‘arctic cold, utter frost’ this last was changed to read helchor ‘antarctic cold, utter frost of the South (the pillar of the Southern Lamp). Q. Helkar.’

Helkaraksë See Helkar; Helkaraksë is not in either dictionary and the second element is obscure, unless it is to be connected with Q. aksa ‘waterfall’ (see Asgon).

Heskil The root HESE ‘winter’ in QL has derivatives Heskil ‘winter one’, Hesin ‘winter’, hessa ‘dead, withered’, hesta- ‘wither’. In GL are Hess ‘winter, especially as name of Fuil’, and hesc ‘withered, dead; chill’. For another name of Fui Nienna see Vailimo.

Hisildi See Hisilómë.

Hisilómë Under the root HISI QL gives hísë, histë, ‘dusk’, Hisinan ‘Land of Twilight’. For the translation of Hisilómë as ‘Shadowy Twilights’ see p. 112.

The root LOMO has many derivatives, as lómë ‘dusk, gloom, darkness’, lómëar ‘child of gloom’ (cf. Lómëarni), lómin ‘shade, shadow’, lomir ‘I hide’, lomba ‘secret’. Cf. Wirilómë. Gnomish words are lôm ‘gloom, shade’, lómin ‘shadowy, gloomy’ and noun ‘gloom’: so Dor Lómin. The same element occurs in Lomendánar ‘Days of Gloaming’.

Ilinsor A late entry in GL gives Glinthos="Qenya" Ilinsor, Helmsman of the Moon. The first element is probably glint ‘crystal’. Ilinsor does not appear in QL.

Ilkorin A negative prefix il- is given in both dictionaries; in GL it is said that il- ‘denotes the opposite, the reversal, i.e. more than the mere negation’. See Kôr.

Ilsaluntë (Name of the Moon.) Ilsa is given in QL as ‘the mystic name of silver, as laurë of gold’ it is the i of tilkal, p. 100. For luntë ‘ship’ see Alqaluntë. The Gnomish name is Gilthalont; giltha ‘white metal’ is said to be properly the same as celeb ‘silver’ (Q. telpë), but now including gais ‘steel’, ladog ‘tin’, etc., as opposed to culu ‘gold’ and culu is said to be a poetic word for ‘gold’ but ‘also used mythically as a class name of all red and vellow metals, as giltha of white and grey’. See Telimp