Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Gnomish

elf

noun. heart

Gnomish [GL/32; LT2/202; PE15/23] Group: Eldamo. Published by

elf(in)

cardinal. five

Gnomish [GL/32; GL/53] Group: Eldamo. Published by

elfrin(iol)

masculine name. Littleheart

Gnomish [GL/32; LT2/050; LT2/201; LT2I/Elfriniel; LT2I/Elfrith; LT2I/Ilfiniol; PE15/20] Group: Eldamo. Published by

elfrith

proper name. Littleheart

Gnomish [GL/32; LT2/202; LT2I/Elfriniel; LT2I/Elfrith; PE13/102; PE15/20; PE15/23] Group: Eldamo. Published by

elfel

adjective. different, like something else

elfeg

adjective. half

cwenn

noun. Elf

Gnomish [GL/28; GL/32; PE13/099; PE14/009] Group: Eldamo. Published by

eglamar

place name. Elfinesse, Elfhome

Gnomish [GL/32; LT1A/Eldamar; LT2A/Eglamar; LT2I/Eglamar] Group: Eldamo. Published by

eglavain

proper name. Elfinesse?

Gnomish [LT2I/Eglavain] Group: Eldamo. Published by

tilithrin

adjective. elfin

ilfrin

masculine name. Littleheart

Gnomish [GL/50; LT1A/Ilverin; LT2/050; LT2/201; LT2I/Elfriniel; LT2I/Ilfiniol; LT2I/Ilfrin; SMI/Ilfiniol] Group: Eldamo. Published by

limfa

noun. drink of the fairies

A noun appearing as G. limp and longer limpelis in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s with the gloss “the drink of the fairies” (GL/54). Tolkien tentatively revised these in pencil to limfa and limfelis, and these two forms appeared in a name list from this same period (PE15/7). These forms did not appear again, but its Quenya cognate ᴹQ. limpe “wine” appeared in The Etymologies of the 1930s (Ety/LIP).

Gnomish [GL/54; PE15/07] Group: Eldamo. Published by

limp(elis)

noun. drink of the fairies

Gnomish [GL/54; LT1A/limpë] Group: Eldamo. Published by

alf

noun. swan

alfa

noun. swan

Gnomish [GL/18; GL/67; LT1A/Alqaluntë; PE13/109] Group: Eldamo. Published by

alfuil(in)

noun. swan

Gnomish [GL/19; PE13/109] Group: Eldamo. Published by

ellon

masculine name. Ellon

Gnomish [LT2I/Ellon] Group: Eldamo. Published by

gail

noun. star

Gnomish [GL/37; LT1A/Tinwetári] Group: Eldamo. Published by

honn

noun. heart

ilf

noun. heart

Gnomish [GL/49; GL/50; LT1A/Ilverin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

lemp

noun. half

Gnomish [GL/32; GL/53] Group: Eldamo. Published by

limfelis

noun. drink of the fairies

miros

noun. wine

Gnomish [GL/57; LT1A/Miruvor] Group: Eldamo. Published by

mîr

noun. wine

The words for “wine” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s were (archaic) G. †mîr and (ordinary) G. miros (GL/57), both related to ᴱQ. miru “wine” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/61).

Neo-Sindarin: In Tolkien’s later writing, S. mîr was “jewel” and S. miruvor was a loan word from Q. miruvórë, where the initial element was based on Val. mirub “wine” (PE17/37-38; WJ/399). As such I use ᴺQ. miru for “wine”, and I would also used ᴺS. miru for “wine” as another loan word from Quenya and an element in S. miruvor. This assumes both “wine” (from grapes) and miruvor were drinks introduced by the Noldor.

Gnomish [GL/57; LT1A/Miruvor] Group: Eldamo. Published by

silwin

noun. swan

A word for “swan” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/67), probably related to ᴱQ. siloine of the same meaning (QL/83).

tîr

noun. king

tûr

noun. king

Gnomish [GG/15; GL/72; LT1A/Meril-i-Turinqi; PE13/115] Group: Eldamo. Published by