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Manwë See Mánir. The Gnomish names are Man and Manweg (for-weg see Bronweg).

Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva For Mar see Eldamar, and for Vanwa see Qalvanda. Tyalië ‘play, game’ is an isolated entry in QL under root TYALA.

Meássë A late, hasty entry in QL adds Meássë ‘sister of Makar, Amazon with bloody arms’ to the root MEHE ‘ooze?’, whence mear ‘gore’. In GL she is Mechos and Mechothli (mechor ‘gore’), and is also called Magrintha ‘the red-handed’ (magru=macha ‘slaughter, battle’, magrusaig ‘bloodthirsty’). In the Valar name-list she is called Rávë or Ravenni; in QL the root RAVA has many derivatives, as rauta- ‘to hunt’, raust ‘hunting, preying’, Raustar a name of Oromë, rau (plural rávi) ‘lion’, ravennë ‘she-lion’, Rávi a name of Meássë. Very similar forms are given in GL: rau ‘lion’, rausta ‘to hunt’, raust ‘hunt’.

Melko The name is entered in QL but without etymological affinity. In GL the corresponding name is Belca, changed to Belcha, with a note referring to Qenya velka ‘flame’. In the Valar name-list he is called Yelur (root DYELE, whence Qenya yelwa ‘cold’, Yelin ‘winter’); the Gnomish form is Geluim, Gieluim, ‘name of Belcha when exercising his opposite functions of extreme cold, Q. Yeloimu’, cf. Gilim ‘winter’. Melko is also called in the name-list Ulban(d), which is found in QL glossed ‘monster’, under the negative prefix UL-; his son Kosomot (Gothmog) was ‘by Ulbandi’ (p. 93). Other names for him in Gnomish are Uduvrin (see Utumna) and Angainos (see Angaino).

Meril-i-Turinqi Meril is not in QL, but turinqi ‘queen’ is given with a great many other derivatives of the root TURU ‘be strong’, including Turambar (Turumarto), and tur ‘king’. In GL are tur- ‘can, have power to’, tûr ‘king’, turwin ‘queen’, turm ‘authority, rule; strength’. turinthi ‘princess, especially title of Gwidhil’. Cf. Sorontur, Valatúru. Tuor.

There are also these later additions in GL: ‘Gwidhil-i-Durinthi= Meril-i-Turinqi Queen of Flowers’ gwethra ‘bloom, flourish’ and the stem gwedh- is here compared to Qenya mer-, which is not in QL.

Minethlos GL min ‘one, single’, mindon ‘tower, properly an isolated turret or peak’, mineth ‘island’, Minethlos ‘Argent Isle (Moon)’—the same translation is given in the text, p. 192. Under root MI QL has mir ‘one’, minqë ‘eleven’ and under root MINI mindon ‘turret’. The second element of Minethlos must in fact be lôs ‘flower’ (see Gar Lossion).

Miruvor QL miruvórë ‘nectar, drink of the Valar’ (see p. 161), with miru ‘wine’ GL mirofor (or gurmir) ‘drink of the Gods’, mîr, miros ‘wine’.

Moritarnon ‘Door of Night’ (see Mornië). GL gives tarn ‘gate’, tarnon ‘porter’. Cf. Tarn Fui.

Mornië Not in QL, but one of the many derivatives of root MORO, as moru- ‘to hide’, mori ‘night’, morna, morqa ‘black’, morion ‘son of the dark’. (A curious item is Morwen ‘daughter of the dark’, Jupiter. In the original tale of Túrin his mother was not named Morwen.) The Gnomish name of the death-ship is Mornir, a later addition to original entries morn ‘dark, black’, morth ‘darkness’, mortha ‘dim’, with the note ‘the black ship that plies between Mandos and Erumáni, Q. Mornië (Black Grief)’. The second element is therefore nîr ‘grief’ (Móru GL in a later addition gives Muru ‘a name of the primeval Night personified as Gwerlum or Gungliont’, hence my reading in the text Móru rather than Morn (p. 156). Among the original entries in GL is múri ‘darkness, night’. See Mornië.

Morwinyon This name of the star Arcturus is translated in the text (p. 182) as ‘the glint at dusk’, and QL, giving it under root MORO (see Mornië), renders it ‘glint in the dark’. QL has a root GWINI with derivative word wintil ‘a glint’.

The Gnomish name is Morwinthi; presumably connected are gwim, gwinc ‘spark, flash’, gwimla ‘wink, twinkle’.

Murmenalda Translated in the text as ‘Vale of Sleep’, ‘the Slumbrous Dale’ (pp. 233, 235). QL under root MURU gives muru- ‘to slumber’, murmë ‘slumber’, murmëa ‘slumbrous’. The second element is from a root