Anduin

place name. Anduine

topon. -. Q. Anduine.

anduin

place name. Great River, (lit.) Long River

The “Great River” of northwestern Middle-earth (LotR/52), a compound of and “long” and duin “river”, and thus literally meaning “Long River” (RC/765, VT48/23).

Conceptual Development: This river was first mentioned as N. Anduin in the earliest versions of the “Fall of Númenor” from the 1930s (LR/33). In the earliest drafts of the Lord of the Rings from the 1940s this river was named N. Beleghir “Great River”, but it was quickly changed to Anduin (RS/410). As he composed the Lord of the Rings, Tolkien considered other variants: Sirvinya “New Sirion” (TI/119) and Andon (TI/298), but all were rejected in favor of Anduin.

Cognates

• Q. Anduinë “Long River” ✧ PE17/040

Element in

• S. Ethir Anduin “Mouths of Anduin” ✧ RC/350

Elements

Word	Gloss
and	“long”
duin	“(large) river, (large) river; [N.] water”

Variations

• anduin ✧ PE17/012; PE17/040

Anduin

noun. long river

and (“long”) + duin (“long and large river”)

duin

noun. (long and large) river (having strong current)

Anduin

Anduin

Anduin is a Sindarin name meaning "long river" or "great river", composed of and + duin.

Anduin

long river or great river

Anduin is a Sindarin name meaning "long river" or "great river", composed of and + duin.

duin

large river

(i dhuin), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nuin), coll. pl. duinath (Names:179, PM:54); compare the river-name Anduin, ”long river”.

duin

river

(long, large river with strong current) duin (i dhuin), no distinct pl. form except with article (i nuin) (VT48:24)

sirion

place name. Great River

The Great River of Beleriand (S/120), a combination of sîr “river” and the adjective iaun “wide”, reduced to its suffixal form -ion also seen in the names of lands (PE17/42).

Conceptual Development: This river was named G. Sirion in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/238) and was explained as an archaic word for “river” in the Gnomish Lexicon (GL/67). The name N. Sirion appeared in The Etymologies from the 1930s as an elaboration of N. sîr (Ety/SIR). The derivation given above appeared in Tolkien’s Words, Phrases and Passages from the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s (PE17/42). In an early name list its Qenya equivalent was given as ᴱQ. Sirion as well (PE13/102).

Derivations

• ✶siriānā “Sirion” ✧ PE17/042

Element in

• Q. Siriondil “*Sirion-lover”
• S. Eithel Sirion “Well of Sirion”
• S. Tol Sirion “*Island of Sirion”

Elements

Word	Gloss
sîr	“river, stream”
iaun	“wide, extensive, large, roomy, vast, huge”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶siriānā > Sirion	[siriānā] > [siriāna] > [siriǭna] > [siriauna] > [siriaun] > [sirion]	✧ PE17/042

sîr

noun. river

celon

river

(i gelon, o chelon), pl. celyn (pl. i chelyn)

ethir

of a river

(estuary), no distinct pl. form, but coll. pl. ethiriath. Note: a homophone means "spy".

lind

river

”singer” may also be used of rivers (see

sirion

great river

sirion (i hirion, o sirion), pl. siryn (i siryn).

sîr

river

1) (also = rill) sîr (i hîr, o sîr), in compounds sir- or -hir or -hír; no distinct pl. form except with article (i sîr), coll. pl. siriath. Note: sîr is also the adverb ”today”. 2) celon (i gelon, o chelon), pl. celyn (pl. i chelyn), 3) The word lind ”singer” may also be used of rivers (see . (WJ.309).

sîr

river

(i hîr, o sîr), in compounds sir- or -hir or -hír; no distinct pl. form except with article (i sîr), coll. pl. siriath. Note: sîr is also the adverb ”today”.