An original entry in GL was bang ‘beard’ = Qenya vanga, but this was struck out; and another word with the same meaning as Indravang was originally entered as Bangasur but changed to Fangasur. The second element of this is sыr ‘long, trailing’, Qenya sуra, and a later addition here is Surfang ‘a long-beard, a naugla or inrafang’. Cf. Fangluin, and later Fangorn ‘Treebeard’.

Irildл See Idril.

Isfin NFG has this entry: ‘Isfin was the sister of Turgon Lord of Gondolin, whom Eцl at length wedded; and it meaneth either “snow-locks” or “exceeding-cunning”.’ Long afterwards my father, noting that Isfin was ‘derived from the earliest (1916) form of The Fall of Gondolin’, said that the name was ‘meaningless’ but with the second element cf. finn ‘lock of hair’ (see Glorfindel) or fim ‘clever’, finthi ‘idea, notion’, etc. (see I.253 (Finwл)).

Ivбrл GL gives Ior ‘the famous “piper of the sea”, Qenya Ivбrл.’

Нverin A late entry in GL gives Aivrin or Aivrien ‘an island off the west coast of Tol Eressлa, Qenya Нwerin or Iverindor.’ QL has Нverind- ‘Ireland’.

Karkaras In GL this is mentioned as the Qenya form; the Gnomish name of ‘the great wolf-warden of Belca’s door’ was Carcaloth or Carcamoth, changed to Carchaloth, Carchamoth. The first element is carc ‘jag, point, fang’ QL under root K K has karka ‘fang, tooth, tusk’, karkassл, karkaras ‘row of spikes or teeth’.

Kosmoko See Gothmog.

Kurыki See I.269 (Tolli Kuruvar).

Ladwen-na-Dhaideloth ‘Heath of the Sky-roof’. See Dor-na-Dhaideloth. GL gives ladwen ‘(1) levelness, flatness; (2) a plain, heath; (3) a plane; (4) surface.’ Other words are ladin ‘level, smooth; fair, equable’ (cf. Tumladin), lad ‘a level’ (cf. mablad ‘palm of hand’ mentioned under Ermabwed), lada- ‘to smooth out, stroke, soothe, beguile’, and ladwinios ‘equity’. There are also words bladwen ‘a plain’ (see I.264 (Palъrien)), and fladwen ‘meadow’ (with flad ‘sward’ and Fladweth Amrod (Amrog) ‘Nomad’s Green’, ‘a place in Tol Erethrin where Eriol sojourned a while; nigh to Tavrobel.’ Amrog, amrod = ‘wanderer’, ‘wandering’, from amra- ‘go up and down, live in the mountains, wander’ see Amon Gwareth).

Laiqalassл See I.267 (Tбri-laisi), I.254 (Gar Lossion).

Laurundo See Glorund.

Legolas See Laiqalassл.

Lindeloktл See I. 258 (Lindelos).

Linwл Tinto See I.269 (Tinwл Linto).

Lуkл See Foalуkл.

Lфs See I.254 (Gar Lossion). The later form loth does not appear in GL (which has however lothwing ‘foamflower’). NFG has ‘Lфs is a flower and in Eldarissa lossл which is a rose’ (all after the word ‘flower’ struck out).

Lуsengriol As with lфs, the later form lothengriol does not appear in GL. Losengriol is translated ‘lily of the valley’ in GL, which gives the Gnomish words eng ‘smooth, level’, enga ‘plain, vale’, engri ‘a level’, engriol ‘vale-like; of the vale’. NFG says ‘Eng is a plain or vale and Engriol that which liveth or dwelleth therein’, and translates Lуsengriol ‘flower of the vale or lily of the valley’.

Los ’lуriol (changed from Los Glуriol; the Golden Flower of Gondolin). See I.254 (Gar Lossion), and for glуriol ‘golden’ see I.258 (Laurelin).

Loth, Lothengriol See Lфs, Lуsengriol.

Lothlim See Lфs and Gondothlim. The entry in NFG reads: ‘Lothlim being for Loslim meaneth folk of the flower, and is that name taken by the Exiles of Gondolin (which city they had called Lфs aforetime).’

Mablung For mab ‘hand’ see Ermabwed. The second element is lung ‘heavy; grave, serious’ related words are lungra- ‘weigh, hang heavy’, luntha ‘balance, weigh’, lunthang ‘scales’.

Malkarauki See I.250 (Balrog).

Mar Vanwa Tyaliйva See I.260 and add: a late entry in GL gives the Gnomish name, Bara Dhair Haithin, the Cottage of Lost Play; also daira- ‘play’ (with dairwen ‘mirth’, etc.), and haim or haithin ‘gone, departed, lost’ (with haitha- ‘go, walk’, etc.). Cf. Dairon.

Mathusdor (Aryador, Hisilуmл). In GL are given math ‘dusk’, mathrin ‘dusky’, mathusgi ‘twilight’, mathwen ‘evening’. See Umboth-muilin.

Mavwin A noun mavwin ‘wish’ in GL was struck out, but related words allowed to stand: mav- ‘like’, mavra ‘eager after’, mavri ‘appetite’, mavrin ‘delightful, desirable’, mavros ‘desire’, maus ‘pleasure; pleasant’. Mavwin’s name in Qenya, Mavoinл, is not in QL, unless it is to be equated with maivoinл ‘great longing’.

Meleth A noun meleth ‘love’ is found in GL; see I.262 (Nessa).

Melian, Melinon, Melinir None of these names occur in the glossaries, but probably all are derivatives of the stem mel- ‘love’ see I.262 (Nessa). The later etymology of Melian derived the name from mel- ‘love’ (Melyanna ‘dear gift’).

Meoita, Miaugion, Miaulл See Tevildo.

Mindon-Gwar For mindon ‘tower’ see I. 260 (Minethlos); and for Gwar see p. 291 and I.257 (Kфr, korin).

Morgoth See p. 67 and Gothmog. For the element mor- see I.261 (Morniл).

Mormagli, Mormakil See I.261 (Morniл) and I.259 (Makar).

Nan Dumgorthin See p. 62. For nan see I.261 (Nandini).

Nantathrin This name does not occur in the Lost Tales, where the Land of Willows is called Tasarinan, but GL gives it (see I.265 (Sirion)) and NFG has an entry: ‘Dor-tathrin was that Land of Willows of which this and many a tale tells.’ GL has tathrin ‘willow’, and QL tasarin of the same meaning.

Nauglafring GL has the following entry: ‘Nauglafring = Fring na Nauglithon, the Necklace of the Dwarves. Made for Ellu by the Dwarves from the gold of Glorund that Mоm the fatherless cursed and that brought ruin on Beren Ermabwed and Damrod his son and was not appeased till it sank with Elwing beloved of Eвrendel to the bottom of the sea.’ For Damrod (Daimord) son of Beren see pp. 139, 259, and for the loss of Elwing and the Nauglafring see pp. 255, 264. This is the only reference to the ‘appeasing’ of Mоm’s curse.—Gnomish fring means ‘carcanet, necklace’ (Qenya firinga).

Nнniel Cf. Gnomish nоn ‘tear’, ninios ‘lamentation’, ninna-‘weep’ see I.262 (Nienna).

Nнnin-Udathriol (‘Unnumbered Tears’). See Nнniel. GL gives tathn ‘number’, tathra- ‘number, count’, udathnarol, udathriol ‘innumerable’. Ы- is a ‘negative prefix with any part of speech’. (QL casts no light on Nieriltasinwa, p. 84, apart from the initial element nie ‘tear’, see I.262 (Nienna).)

Noldorissa See Eldarissa.

Nos Galdon, Nos nan Alwen See Duilin, Galdor.

Nost-na-Lothion See Duilin.