The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1 - J. R. R. Tolkien [170]
plenilune the time of full moon, 205 (see Letters p. 310).
pricks (spurs his horse), rides fast, 114. Oromë pricks over the plain echoes the first line of The Faerie Queene, A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.
recked troubled, cared, 179
rede counsel, advice, 141, 182, 217; plan, 180; redes counsels, 117
rondured (in golden-rondured) 35. Rondure ‘circle, rounded form’ rondured is not recorded.
ruth matter of sorrow, calamity, 185; distress, grief, 191; remorse, 194; in the greatest ruth was that to [the Valar] thereafter 209 the sense is unclear: ‘matter of sorrow or regret’, or possibly ‘harm, ill’.
saps deep diggings, 104
sate old past tense of sit, 58, 105, 153, 181, 190, 194
seamews seagulls, 124
selenites inhabitants of the Moon, 205
shallop 192. This word had precise applications to particular kinds of boat, but here apparently means ‘open boat propelled by oars and sail’.
share 34, 38. share = ploughshare, but used here of the blade of a scythe.
sledge-blows blows as of a sledge, a large heavy hammer, 78
sprent past participle of the lost verb sprenge ‘sprinkle, scatter’, 192
sprite(s) spirit(s), 71, 74, 95, 115, 191
suaded persuaded, 69, 163
trillups 108, trillaping 109. This word is not recorded in any dictionary available to me.
umbraged (in wide-umbraged) 34, 38. Umbraged ‘shaded, shadowed’, but here in the sense ‘shadowing’, ‘casting a shade’.
web(s) woven fabric, 58, 73, 95 (also used in senses ‘webbed feet’ 127, ‘cobwebs’ 77, etc.)
whickering 205 (whickering sparks). The verb whicker meant to laugh or titter, or of a horse to whinny, but the O.E.D. cites a line from Masefield the wall-top grasses whickered in the breeze, and the 1920 Supplement to the Dictionary gives a meaning ‘to make a hurtling sound’, with a single citation where the word is used of a thunderbolt whickering through the sky. In the 1962 version of The Man in the Moon the word flickering occurs in this verse.
whitethorn hawthorn, 76
wildered perplexed, bewildered, 163–4, 178, 231
wrack devastation, ruin, 177 (cf. (w)rack and ruin).
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Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The 27, 32, 204
Ælfwine ‘Elf-friend’, later name for Eriol. 24, 49, 107, 234; the tale of Ælfwine of England 24, 134
Æsc (Old English) 245. See Askr.
Ailios Earlier name of Gilfanon. 197–8, 204, 220–2, 227, 229–31
Ainairos Elf of Alqaluntë. 208, 222. (Replaced Oivárin.)
Ainulindalë 49, 60–3. See Music of the Ainur.
Ainur (Singular Ainu; plural Ainu 52, 60–1.) 52–7, 59–63, 66–7, 102, 105, 147, 150–1, 154–5, 219, 225; Ainu Melko 147, 150. See Music of the Ainur.
Alalminórë ‘Land of Elms’, region of Tol Eressëa. 16, 25, 33, 36, 39, 41, 43, 94; Alalminor 40; the first part of the poem The Trees of Kortirion 39. See Gar Lossion, Land of Elms.
Aldaron Name of Oromë, ‘king of forests’. 66, 79; lord of forests 71
All-Hallows 34, 38, 42
Almain, Ocean of The North Sea. 205–6
Almaren 87, 110, 222
Alqaluntë See Kópas Alqaluntë.
Alqualondë 171, 223
Aluin Time, the oldest of the Ainur. 219, 222. (Replaced Lúmin.)
Aman 23, 26, 93, 135, 137, 196. See Blessed Realm.
Ambarkanta ‘Shape of the World’ (cosmological work). 86, 227
Amillo Youngest of the great Valar, called also Ómar. 67, 75, 80, 89, 93, 228
Amnon Prophecy of