Sam Gamgee’s eldest child, who was named after the flower of Lórien elanor “sun-star” (LotR/1026, SD/129). In Tolkien’s unfinished epilogue to The Lord of the Rings, this name also appeared in the diminutive form Elanorellë (SD/122).
Sindarin
elanor
noun. a flower, a kind of enlarged pimpernel bearing golden and silver flowers
elanor
noun. star-sun (flower)
elanor
feminine name. Elanor
Element in
- S. ar Meril bess dîn, ar Elanor, Meril, Glorfinniel, ar Eirien sellath dîn “and Rose his wife; and Elanor, Rose, Goldilocks and Daisy his daughters” ✧ AotM/062; SD/129
Elements
Word Gloss elanor “pimpernel, small golden star-shaped flower, (lit.) sun-star”
elanor
noun. 'sun-star'
n. Bot. 'sun-star'.
elanor
noun. pimpernel, small golden star-shaped flower, (lit.) sun-star
The name of a flower in Lórien translated “sun-star” also given as the name of the first daughter of Samwise (LotR/1026). It is a combination of el “star” and Anor “sun” (PE17/55). In notes for the tale of Aldarion and Erendis, Tolkien said it also grew in Númenor and “was a small golden star-shaped flower” (UT/216 note #20). In a letter to Amy Ronald from 1969, Tolkien described it as “a pimpernel (perhaps a little enlarged) growing sun-golden flowers and star-silver ones on the same plant, and sometimes the two combined” (Let/402). Thus it was either a golden star-shaped flower or a pimpernel-like plant growing both sun-coloured and star-coloured flowers.
Element in
- S. Elanor
Elements
Word Gloss êl “star” Anor “Sun” Variations
- Elanor ✧ LotRI/Elanor; UT/216
alf
noun. flower
Cognates
- Q. alma “flower” ✧ PE17/153
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √GAL-AB > alf [alba] > [alva] > [alv] ✧ PE17/153
elloth
noun. (single) flower
loth
noun. flower
_n._flower, a single bloom. Q. lóte, lōs.
ninglor
noun. golden water-flower, gladden
loth
noun. flower, inflorescence, a head of small flowers
The noun is collective, a single flower being lotheg
lotheg
noun. (single) flower
mallos
noun. a golden flower
niphredil
noun. a pale winter flower, snowdrop
elanor
pimpernel
: the word elanor (pl. elanoer) refers to a kind of pimpernel with golden and silver flowers.
elanor
pimpernel
(pl. elanoer) refers to a kind of pimpernel with golden and silver flowers.
elanor
star-sun
(a kind of pimpernel with golden and silver flowers) elanor (pl. elanoer). Archaic *elanaur.
elanor
star-sun
(pl. elanoer). Archaic ✱elanaur.
edlothia
flower
(verb) #edlothia- (i edlothia, in edlothiar) (to blossom);
edlothia
flower
(i edlothia, in edlothiar) (to blossom);
loth
flower
loth, pl. lyth (but loth is also glossed ”blossom” and may itself function as a collective term: all the flowers of a plant. For individual flowers cf. the following:)
loth
flower
pl. lyth (but loth is also glossed ”blossom” and may itself function as a collective term: all the flowers of a plant. For individual flowers cf. the following:)
edlothiad
flowering
(blossoming), pl. edlothiaid if there is a pl.**
lotheg
single flower
lothod (”singulars” derived from the more collective term loth; it is unclear whether lotheg, lothod can themselves have ”plural” forms. If so it would be lethig, lethyd, for archaic löthig, löthyd.) (VT42:18, VT45:29) Another word for a single flower is elloth (pl. ellyth) (VT42:18). An alternative to loth is loss (construct los; pl. lyss), but the form loth seems to be more common (and loss also means ”fallen snow” and ”wilderness”).
gwaloth
collection of flowers
(i ’waloth) (blossom), pl. gwelyth (in gwelyth). Also goloth (i ’oloth) (blossom), pl. gelyth (i ngelyth = i ñelyth). Archaic pl. gölyth. (VT42:18). Specific flowers, see
êl (“star”) + anor (“sun”)