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Noldorin See Noldoli.
Nólemë This is given in QL as a common noun, ‘deep lore, wisdom’ (See Noldoli). The Gnomish name of Finwë Nólemë, Golfinweg (p. 115), contains the same element, as must also the name Fingolma given to him in outlines for Gilfanon’s Tale (pp. 238–9).
I Nori Landar (On the ‘World-Ship’ drawing, probably meaning ‘the Great Lands’, pp. 84–5.) For nori see Valinor. Nothing similar to landar appears in QL; GL gives a word land (lann) ‘broad’.
Nornorë In QL this name has the form Nornoros ‘herald of the Gods’, and with the verb nornoro- ‘run on, run smoothly’ is derived from a root NORO ‘run, ride, spin, etc.’. GL has similar words, nor- run‘, roll’, norn ‘wheel’, nûr ‘smooth, rolling free’. The name corresponding to Qenya Nornorë is here Drondor ‘messenger of the Gods’ (drond ‘race, course, track’ and drô ‘wheel-track, rut’); Drondor was later changed to Dronúrin ( Núri Name of Fui Nienna: ‘Núri who sighs’, p. 66. This is given without translation in QL under root NURU, with núru- ‘growl (of dogs), grumble’, nur ‘growl, complaint’. In Gnomish she is Nurnil, with associated words nur- ‘growl, grumble’, nurn ‘lament’, nurna- ‘bewail, lament’. Ô (On the ‘World-Ship’ drawing: ‘the Sea’, pp. 84–5.) See Ónen. Oarni See Ónen. Olofantur See Lórien, Fanturi. Olórë Mallë For Olórë see Lórien. mallë ‘street’ appears in QL under root MALA ‘crush’ (see Balrog); the Gnomish form is mal ‘paved way, road’, and the equivalent of Olórë Mallë is Malmaurien (see Murmuran). Ónen The root ’o’o in QL has derivatives Ô, a poetic word, ‘the sea’, oar ‘child of the sea, merchild’, oaris (-ts), oarwen ‘mermaid’, and Ossë the name ówen (antecedent of Ónen in the text, pp. 61, 79) also appears, and evidently means the same as oarwen (for -wen see Urwen). The later form Uinen in the Tales is apparently Gnomish; GL U´nen ‘Lady of the Sea’. changed late to Uinen. A form Oinen also occurs (p. 211). In the Valar name-list Ónen is called also Solórë (see Solosimpi) and Ui Oarista. This latter appears in QL, with the definition ‘Queen of the Mermaids’, together with Uin ‘the primeval whale’ but how these relate to the other names is obscure. Orc QL ork (orq-) ‘monster, demon’. GL orc ‘goblin’, plural orcin, orchoth (hoth ‘folk, people’, hothri ‘army’, hothron ‘captain’). Oromë In QL Oromë ‘son of Aulë’ is placed under a root ORO that is distinct (apparently because of the nature of the consonant) from ORO (with meaning of ‘steepness, rising’) given under Kalormë; but these roots are said to be ‘much confused’. This second root yields órë ‘the dawn, Sunrise, East’, órëa ‘of the dawn, Eastern’, orontë, oronto ‘Sunrise’, osto ‘the gates of the Sun’, and Ostor ‘the East, the Sun when she issues from her white gates’. It is noted that Oromë should perhaps be placed under the other root, but there is no indication of the connections of the name. In The Hiding of Valinor (p. 214) Oromë has a particular knowledge of the East of the world. His name in Gnomish is Orma; and in the Valar name-list he is also called Raustar, for which see Meássë. Oronto (On the ‘World-Ship’ drawing, ‘East’.) See Oromë. Orossi In the list of fays referred to under Nandini the Orossi are ‘fays of the mountains’, and this name is thus a derivative from the root ORO seen in Kalormë. Ossë See Ónen. His Gnomish name is Otha or Oth. Palisor See Palúrien. Palúrien An early entry in QL gives Palurin ‘the wide world’ under a root PALA, whose derivatives have a common general sense of ‘flatness’, among them palis ‘sward, lawn’, whence no doubt Palisor. In GL the corresponding name is Belaurin, B(a)laurin; but she is also called Bladorwen