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Úvanimor See Vána.
Vai The root VAYA ‘enfold’ in QL yields Vai ‘the Outer Ocean’, Vaimo or Vailimo ‘Ulmo as Ruler of Vai’, vaima ‘robe’, vainë ‘sheath’, vainolë ‘quiver’, vaita- ‘to wrap’, Vaitya ‘the outermost airs beyond the world’, etc. In Gnomish the form is Bai, with related words Baithon ‘the outer airs’, baith ‘garment’, baidha ‘to clothe’, bain ‘clad (Q. vaina)’.
Vailimo See Vai. In Gnomish the form is Belmoth (< Bailmoth); there is also a poetic name Bairos. Ulmo is also called in Gnomish i Chorweg a · Vai, i.e. ‘the old one of Vai’ (hôr ‘old, ancient (only of things still existing)’, hortha- ‘grow old’, horoth ‘old age’, Hôs ‘old age’, a name of Fuil). For -weg see Bronweg.
Vaitya See Vai.
Valahíru (Marginal addition in the text against Valatúru, p. 180.) Not in the dictionaries, but probably to be associated with QL root HERE ‘rule, have power’: heru- ‘to rule’, heru ‘lord’, heri ‘lady’, hérë ‘lordship’.
Valar In QL ‘Valar or Vali’ is derived from root VALA, with masc. singular Valon or Valmo and fem. singular Valis or Valdë; other words are valin, valimo ‘happy’, vald- ‘blessedness, happiness’.
The Gnomish words are complicated and curious. As first written, there was Ban ‘a god, one of the great Valar’, plural Banin, and ‘Dor’ Vanion=Dor Banion=Gwalien (or Valinor)’. All this was struck out. Elsewhere in GL is given the root GWAL ‘fortune, happiness’: Gwala ‘one of the gods, including their divine folk and children, hence often used of one of the lesser folk as opposed to Ban’ Gwalon and Gwalthi corresponding to Qenya Valon, Valsi; gwalt ‘good luck—any providential occurrence or thought: “the luck of the Valar”, i · walt ne Vanion (Q. valto)’ and other abstract words, as gwalweth ‘fortune, happiness’. Of the later interpretation of Valar there is thus no suggestion. See further under Vána.
Valatúru See Valar, Meril-i-Turinqi.
Valinor In QL two forms are given, Valinor and Valinórë (the latter also occurs in the text, p. 182), both glossed ‘Asgard’ (i.e. the City of the Gods in Norse mythology). For the Gnomish names (Gwalien, etc.) see Valar.
nórë is found in QL under the root N ‘become, be born’, and is glossed ‘native land, nation, family, country’, also -nor, ‘the form in compounds’. Other words are nosta- ‘give birth’, nosta ‘birth, birthday’, nostalë ‘species, kind’, nossë ‘kin, people’ (as in Aulenossë). The Gnomish form is dôr: see Dor Faidwen.
Valmar See Valar, Eldamar.
Vána A derivative of QL root VANA, together with vanë ‘fair’, vanessë ‘beauty’, vanima ‘proper, right, fair’, úvanimo ‘monster’ (ú-= ‘not’), etc. Here also are given Vanar and Vani= Valar, Vali, with the note: ‘cf. Gnomish Ban-’. See Valar.
Vána’s name in Gnomish was Gwân or Gwani (changed later to Gwann or Gwannuin); gwant, gwandra ‘beautiful’, gwanthi ‘beauty’.
Vána-Laisi See Vána, Tári-Laisi.
Vansamírin This name replaced Samírien’s road in the text (p. 222).
See Qalvanda, Samírien.
Varda In QL the name is given with vard- ‘rule, govern’, vardar ‘king’, varni ‘queen’. In Gnomish Varda was called Bridhil (and Timbridhil, see Tinwetári), which is cognate with Qenya vard-.
Vê QL gives Vê ‘name of Fantur’ under root VEHE, but without meaning ascribed or other derivatives. The form in GL is Gwê, changed to Gwî: ‘name of the hall of Bandoth, Q. Vê’. See Mandos, Vefántur.
Vefántur In GL the Vala himself is called Bandoth Gwê (changed to Bannoth Gwî), Gwefantur (changed to Gwifanthor), and Gwivannoth.
Vene Kemen See Glorvent, Kémi.
Vilna In QL the root VILI (without meaning given) has derivatives Vilna (changed later to Vilya) ‘(lower) air’, Vilmar ‘dwelling of Manwë—the upper airs (but not ilu)’, vilin ‘airy, breezy’, vílë ‘gentle breeze’. The words ‘but not ilu’ refer to the definition of ilu in the sense of ilwë, the middle air among the stars (see ilwë). Manwë’s dwelling Vilmar is not named elsewhere.
The Gnomish