bril

noun. glass, crystal

An Ilkorin word for “glass, crystal” appearing The Etymologies of the 1930s and developed from the primitive form ᴹ✶mbiríl- (Ety/MBIRIL), because in Ilkorin unstressed initial syllables reduced to favored clusters. It was an element in the 1930s Ilkorin name Brilthor “Glittering Torrent” (LR/263). This name survived into Silmarillion drafts of the 1950s (WJ/13), so it may be that this word became Sindarin.

Conceptual Development: Possible precursors include G. brin(in), the glassy substance used to create the Moon in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/24), which became ᴱN. brin “dwarf-glass” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/139).

brilthor

place name. Glittering Torrent