The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1 - J. R. R. Tolkien [167]
Turgon Neither Turondo nor Gnomish Turgon are given in the dictionaries, and beyond the likelihood that the first element is from the root TURU (see Meril-i-Turinqi) these names cannot be explained.
Turuhalmë ‘The Logdrawing’ (p. 229). A second root TURU (TUSO) ‘kindle’ in QL (differing in the medial consonant from TURU ‘be strong’) has many derivatives: turu-, tunda- ‘kindle’, turu ‘properly="firewood," but used of wood in general’, turúva ‘wooden’, tusturë ‘tinder’, etc. In GL are duru ‘wood: pole, beam, or log’, durog ‘wooden’.
The second element is in Gnomish halm ‘drawing, draught (of fishes etc.)’. The name of the festival is Duruchalmo(s)="Halm" nadhuruthon (Duruchalm was written in the text and struck out, p. 244), translated ‘Yule’ this was changed later to Durufui ‘Yule (night), i.e. Log-night’ (see Fui).
Uin See Ónen. In GL uin is a common noun, ‘whale’, named after Uin ‘Gulma’s great whale’ (Gulma=Ulmo); but apparently (though this entry is rather obscure) the original meaning of uin, preserved in poetry, was ‘wave’. Another Gnomish word for ‘whale’ is uimoth ‘sheep of the waves’ (moth ‘sheep, also ‘1000’, probably originally ‘flock’ mothweg ‘shepherd’).
Uinen See Ónen.
Ulmo Ulmo is given in QL under the root ULU ‘pour, flow fast’, together with ulu- and ulto- ‘pour’, in transitive and intransitive senses. His name in Gnomish is Gulma, with corresponding verbs gul- and gulta-. In the draft text of The Music of the Ainur he is also called Linqil: see Nielíqui. For other names see Vailimo.
Ulmonan See Ulmo; the second element of this name is not explained.
Ungoliont See Ungwë Lianti.
Ungwë Lianti, Ungweliant(ë) Under a queried root GUNGU QL gives ungwë ‘spider, especially Ungwë the Gloomweaver, usually Ungwelianti’. The second element is from root LI + ya ‘entwine’, with derivatives lia ‘twine’, liantë ‘tendril’, liantassë ‘vine’. In GL the name as originally entered was Gungliont, as also first written in the text (p. 156); later this was changed to ‘Ungweliont or Ungoliont’. The second element is assigned to root l- (lind ‘twine’).
Uolë Kúvion Kúvion was changed from Mikúmi (p. 198). The name is not in QL under the root KUVU ‘bend, bow’, which has derivatives kû ‘crescent Moon’, kúnë ‘crescent, bow’. GL gives cû ‘bow, crescent; the waxing or waning Moon’, and also ‘Cuvonweg: Ûl Cuvonweg (="Q." ólë Kúmion), the Moonking’. Under Ûl the Qenya equivalent is however Uolë, and here it is said that the name Ûl is usually in the phrase Ûl · a · Rinthilios; while Rinthilios is glossed ‘the orbed Moon, name of the Moon-elf’ (rinc ‘circular’, noun ‘disc’ rin- ‘revolve, return’).
Ûr The root URU/USU in QL has derivatives uru ‘fire’, úrin ‘blazing hot’, uruvoitë ‘fiery’, urúva ‘like fire’, urwa ‘on fire’, Ûr ‘the Sun’ (with other forms Úri, Úrinki, Urwen), úrion ‘a name of Fionwë’, urna ‘oven’, usta-, urya- ‘burn’ (transitive and intransitive). The Gnomish form is Aur (aurost ‘dawn’), and also a poetic word Uril. See Fionwë-Úrion, Urwen.
Urwen, Urwendi In the earlier tales in this book the form is Urwen, becoming Urwendi in the Tale of the Sun and Moon. The original entry in GL was ‘Urwendi and Urwin (Q. Urwen) the maiden of the Sun-ship’, but this was later changed to read ‘Urwedhin and Urwin (Q. Urwendi)’. In QL (see Ûr) Urwen appears as a name of the Sun. In the Valar name-list the Sun-maiden is also called Úrinki, and this also appears in QL as a name of the Sun.
The element -wen is given in QL under root GWENE: wen and wendi ‘maid, girl’, -wen feminine patronymic, like masculine -ion, wendelë ‘maidenhood’ (see Wendelin). In GL the forms were much changed and confused. The words given have stems in gwin-, gwen-, gweth, with meanings ‘woman’, ‘girl’, etc.; the root seems to have been changed from gweni- to gwedhe-, with reference both to Qenya meril (see Meril-i-Turinqi) and Qenya wendi.
Utumna In QL the root of Utumna (‘lower regions of gloom and darkness