Parma Kuluinen The Golden Book, see p. 310. This entry is given in QL under root PARA: parma ‘skin, bark; parchment; book, writings’. This word survived in later Quenya (The Lord of the Rings III. 401). For Kuluinen see Glingol.

Peleg (Father of Tuor). GL has a common noun peleg ‘axe’, verb pelectha- ‘hew’ (QL pelekko ‘axe’, pelekta- ‘hew’). Cf. Tuor’s name Pelecthon in the note cited under Idril.

Ramandur See I.259 (Makar).

Rog GL gives an adjective rфg, rog ‘doughty, strong’. But with the Orcs’ name for Egnor Beren’s father, Rog the Fleet, cf. arog ‘swift, rushing’, and raug of the same meaning; Qenya arauka.

Rфs GL gives yet another meaning of this name: ‘the Sea’ (Qenya Rбsa).

Rodothlim See Rothwarin (earlier form replaced by Rodothlim).

Rothwarin GL has this name in the forms Rothbarin, Rosbarin: ‘(literally “cavern-dwellers”) name of a folk of secret Gnomes and also of the regions about their cavernous homes on the banks of the river.’ Gnomish words derived from the root ROTO ‘hollow’ are rod ‘tube, stem’, ross ‘pipe’, roth ‘cave, grot’, rothrin ‘hollow’, rodos ‘cavern’ QL gives rotsл ‘pipe’, rуta ‘tube’, ronta, rotwa ‘hollow’, rotelл ‘cave’.

Rъmhoth See Glamhoth.

Rъsitaurion GL gives a noun rыs (rфs) ‘endurance, longsuffering, patience’, together with adjective rф ‘enduring, longsuffering; quiet, gentle’, and verb rф-‘remain, stay; endure’. For taurion see I.267 (Tavari).

Sarnathrod Gnomish sarn ‘a stone’ for athrod ‘ford’ see Artanor.

Sarqindi (‘Cannibal-ogres’). This must derive from the root S K given in QL, with derivatives sarko ‘flesh’, sarqa ‘fleshy’, sarkuva ‘corporeal, bodily’.

Silpion An entry in NFG (p. 215) translates the name as ‘Cherrymoon’. In QL is a word pio ‘plum, cherry’ (with piukka ‘blackberry’, piosenna ‘holly’, etc.), and also Valpio ‘the holy cherry of Valinor’. GL gives Piosil and Silpios, without translation, as names of the Silver Tree, and also a word piog ‘berry’.

Taimonto See I.268 (Telimektar).

Talceleb, Taltelepta (Name of Idril/Irildл, ‘of the Silver Feet’.) The first element is Gnomish tвl ‘foot (of people and animals)’ related words are taltha ‘foot (of things), base, pedestal, pediment’, talrind, taldrin ‘ankle’, taleg, taloth ‘path’—another name for the Way of Escape into Gondolin was Taleg Uthwen (see Bad Uthwen). QL under root TALA ‘support’ gives tala ‘foot’, talwi (dual) ‘the feet’, talas ‘sole’, etc. For the second element see I.268 (Telimpл). QL gives the form telepta but without translation.

Tarnin Austa For tarn ‘gate’ see I.261 (Moritarnon). GL gives aust ‘summer’ cf. Aur ‘the Sun’, I.271 (Ыr).

Taruithorn, Taruktarna (Oxford). GL gives tвr ‘horn’ and tarog ‘ox’ (Qenya taruku-), Taruithron older Taruitharn ‘Oxford’. Immediately following these words are tarn ‘gate’ and taru ‘(1) cross (2) crossing’. QL has taru ‘horn’ (see Drambolreg), tarukka ‘horned’, tarukko, tarunko ‘bull’, Taruktarna ‘Oxford’, and under root TARA tara- ‘cross, go athwart’, tarna ‘crossing, passage’.

Tasarinan See Nantathrin.

Taurfuin See I.267 (Tavari) and I.253 (Fui).

Teld Quing Ilon NFG has an entry: ‘Cris a Teld Quing Ilon signifieth Gully of the Rainbow Roof, and is in the Eldar speech Kiris Iluqingatelda’ a Teld Quing Ilon was struck out and replaced by Ilbranteloth. Another entry reads: ‘Ilon is the sky’ in GL Ilon (= Qenya Ilu) is the name of Ilъvatar (see I.255 (Ilwл)). Teld does not appear in GL, but related words as telm ‘roof’ are given (see I.267–8 (Teleri)); and cwing = ‘a bow’. QL has iluqinga ‘rainbow’ (see I.256 (Ilweran)) and telda ‘having a roof’ (see I.268 (Telimektar)). For Cris, Kiris see Cris Ilbranteloth.

Tevildo, Tifil For the etymology see I.268, to which can be added that the earlier Gnomish form Tifil (later Tiberth) is associated in GL with a noun tоf ‘resentment, ill-feeling, bitterness’.

Vardo Meoita ‘Prince of Cats’: for Vardo see I.273 (Varda). QL gives meoi ‘cat’.

Bridhon Miaugion ‘Prince of Cats’: bridhon ‘king, prince’, cf. Bridhil, Gnomish name of Varda (I.273). Nouns miaug, miog ‘tomcat’ and miauli ‘she-cat’ (changed to miaulin) are given in GL, where the Prince of Cats is called Tifli Miothon or Miaugion. Miaulл was the name of Tevildo’s cook (p. 28).

Thorndor See I.266 (Sorontur).

Thornhoth See Glamhoth.

Thorn Sir See I.265 (Sirion).

Tifanto This name is clearly to be associated with the Gnomish words (tif-, tifin) given in I.268 (Tinfang).

Tifil See Tevildo.

Tirin See I.258 (Kortirion).

Tфn a GwedrinTфn is a Gnomish word meaning ‘fire (on a hearth)’, related to tan and other words given under Tanyasalpл (I.266—7); Tфn a Gwedrin ‘the Tale-fire’ in Mar Vanwa Tyaliйva. Cf. Tфn Sovriel ‘the fire lake of Valinor’ (sovriel ‘purification’, sovri ‘cleansing’ sфn ‘pure, clean’, soth ‘bath’, sф- ‘wash, clean, bathe’).

Gwedrin belongs with cwed- (preterite cwenthi) ‘say, tell’, cweth ‘word’, cwent ‘tale, saying’, cwess ‘saying, proverb’, cwedri ‘telling (of tales)’, ugwedriol ‘unspeakable, ineffable’. In QL under root QETE are qet-(qentл) ‘speak, talk’, quent ‘word’, qentelл ‘sentence’, Eldaqet = Eldarissa, etc. Cf. the Appendix to The Silmarillion, entry quen-(quet-).

Tumladin For the first element, Gnomish tыm ‘valley’, see I.269 (Tombo), and for the second, ladin ‘level, smooth’ see Ladwen na Dhaideloth.

Turambar For the first element see I.260 (Meril-i-Turinqi). QL gives amarto, ambar ‘Fate’, and also (root M T ) mart ‘a piece of luck’, marto ‘fortune, fate, lot’, mart- ‘it happens’ (impersonal). GL has mart ‘fate’, martion ‘fated, doomed, fey’ also umrod and umbart ‘fate’.

Turumart See Turambar.

Ufedhin Possible connections of this name are Gnomish uf ‘out of, forth from’, or fedhin ‘bound by agreement, ally, friend’.

Ulbandi See I.260 (Melko).

Ulmonan The Gnomish name was Ingulma(n) (Gulma = Ulmo), with the prefix in- (ind-, im-) ‘house of’ (ind ‘house’, see Idril). Other examples of this formation are Imbelca, Imbelcon ‘Hell (house of Melko)’, inthorn ‘eyrie’, Intavros ‘forest’ (properly ‘the forest palace of Tavros’).

Umboth-muilin Gnomish umboth, umbath ‘nightfall’ Umbathor is a name of Garioth (see I.252 (Eruman)). This word is derived from *mbap-, related to *map seen in math ‘dusk’: see Mathusdor. The second element is muil ‘tarn’, Qenya moilл.