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Calacirya

light-cleft

Calacirya place-name "Light-cleft", Calacirya, the great ravine in the mountains of Valinor, the passage leading from Valmar to the region where the Teleri lived. Genitive Calaciryo in Namárië(Nam, RGEO:67)

calacirya

place name. Pass of Light

The “Pass of Light” through the Pelóri mountains into the heart of Valinor (S/59). It is a compound of cala “light” and cirya “cleft, pass” (RGEO/62).

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, it was called ᴹQ. Kalakilya (LR/173), using an earlier word for “pass”: ᴹQ. kilya (Ety/KIL).

Quenya [LotR/0377; LotRI/Calacirya; LT1I/Calacirya; MR/087; MR/102; MRI/Kalakiryan; PE17/073; RGEO/58; RGEO/59; RGEO/62; S/059; SA/kal; SA/kir; SI/Calacirya; SMI/Calacirya] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Calacilya

pass of light

Calacilya ("k") place-name "Pass of Light", in which Kôr was built (KIL, KAL). Evidently a variant of Calacirya.

calaciryan

place name. *Land of Calacirya

According to Tolkien: “the region of Eldamar near the entrance to the ravine [Calacirya] where the Light was brighter and more beautiful” (RGEO/62). It seems to be a combination of Calacirya “Pass of Light” with the suffix -yan(de) (from ✶yandē) “-land”. This suffix is rarely used in Quenya, but is commonly seen in Sindarin as the suffix -ian(d). In some places, Tolkien used this name to refer directly to the pass itself (MR/176, WJ/403).

Quenya [MR/087; MR/176; MRI/Kalakiryan; PE17/073; RGEO/62; WJ/403; WJI/Kalakiryan] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Calaciryan

the cleft of light

Calaciryan ("k") place-name "the Cleft of Light", the pass in the Pelóri, apparently a variant of Calacirya (WJ:403, SA:kal-, kir-). Calaciryan, Calaciryandë, "the region of Eldamar (Elvenhome) in and near the entrance to the ravine, where the Light was brighter and the land more beautiful" (RGEO:70)

Calacirya

Calacirya

Calacirya literally means "Light-cleft" in Quenya (from cálë = "light" and cilya = "cleft, gorge"). Variant names used by Tolkien were Kalakirya and Kalakilya (early forms), and Kalakiryan and Calaciryan (later forms).

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