prop. n.
Sindarin
elu
masculine name. Elu
Cognates
- Q. Elwë ✧ LBI/Elu; MRI/Elwë; PE17/189; PMI/Thingol; SI/Elu; SI/Elwë; UTI/Elu; MR/217; PM/369; VT41/08; WJI/Elwë
Element in
Elements
Word Gloss êl “star” -u “a person or being”
elu
noun. Elu
elu
adjective. (pale) blue
elu
noun. Elwe
_prop. n. _Q. Elwe.
elu
pale blue
1) elu (analogical pl. ely). Archaic elw (pl. ilw?) 2) gwind (lenited wind; no distinct pl. form)
elu
pale blue
1) elu (analogical pl. ely). Archaic elw (pl. ilw?). 2) gwind (lenited wind; no distinct pl. form).
elu
adjective. (pale) blue
elu
pale blue
(analogical pl. ely). Archaic elw (pl. ilw?).
luin
adjective. blue
Cognates
- Q. luinë “blue” ✧ SA/luin; VT48/23; VT48/28
Derivations
Element in
- S. Aeluin “*Blue Lake” ✧ S/162
- S.
caralluin“*red-blue”- S. Draugluin “*Blue (Were)wolf”
- S. Ered Luin “Blue Mountains” ✧ SA/luin; VT48/23; VT48/24; VT48/28
- S. Hirluin
- S. Ithryn Luin “Blue Wizards” ✧ UT/390
- S. Mindolluin “Towering Blue-head” ✧ SA/luin
- ᴺS. nelluin “bluebell”
- S. Sîr Luin ✧ VT48/23; VT48/28 (
Sîr Luin)Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √LUY > Luin [luini] > [luine] > [luin] ✧ VT48/23 ✶luini > luin [luini] > [luine] > [luin] ✧ VT48/24 Variations
- Luin ✧ Let/448; VT48/23
luin
adjective. blue
luin
blue
adj. blue. . This gloss was rejected.
luin
jhJ5 adjective. blue
Examples: Ered luin, Helluin, Luinil, Mindolluin
lô
blue
adj. blue. . This gloss was rejected.
nimp
adjective. pale
adj. pale, pallid. nimp << nim (PE17:168). >> niphred
gael
pale
(glittering), lenited ’ael; no distinct pl. form.
gwind
pale blue
(lenited ’wind; no distinct pl. form).
luin
blue
luin (no distinct pl. form, as demonstrated by the name Ered Luin ”Blue Mountains”) (VT48:24)
maidh
pale
1) maidh (lenited vaidh; no distinct pl. form) (fallow, fawn), 2) nimp (nim-) (white); no distinct pl. form, 3) thind (grey); no distinct pl. form; 4) gael (glittering), lenited ael; no distinct pl. form. 5) *malu (lenited valu; analogical pl. mely; lenited valu) (fallow). Cited in archaic form malw (LR:386 s.v. SMAL).
maidh
pale
(lenited vaidh; no distinct pl. form) (fallow, fawn)
malu
pale
(lenited valu; analogical pl. mely; lenited valu) (fallow). Cited in archaic form malw (LR:386 s.v. SMAL).
mith
pale grey
(lenited vith; no distinct pl. form). David Salo would read mîth with a long vowel. Note: a homophone means ”white fog, wet mist”.
nimp
pale
(nim-) (white); no distinct pl. form
thind
pale
(grey); no distinct pl. form
The Sindarin form of Q. Elwë, the original name of Thingol (S/56). This Sindarin name is derived from the Quenya, because in Sindarin short final vowels vanished and then [[s|final [w] usually became [u]]]: Elwe > Elw > Elu (PE17/189). This Sindarin name appeared as an element in the names of many of his descendants.
Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, the leader of the third tribe of Elves was named Sol. Ellu (LT1/155), though at this early stage the character was distinct from the contemporanerous character that would develop into Thingol (G. Tinwelint). The name changed to (Telerin?) Elu with one l in very early Silmarillion drafts (SM/13, 85), and was given the Qenya cognate of ᴱQ. Elwe.
In the Annals of Beleriand from the 1930s, ᴹQ. Elwe was identified as the brother of Thingol (SM/264) and so remained in Silmarillion drafts of that period (LR/217). In The Etymologies, Tolkien specifically indicated that the Noldorin form of his name Elw (= Elu) was not used (Ety/WEG), probably because in this conception Elwe remained in Valinor. It was not until Silmarillion revisions from the 1950s-60s that the name Elwe was assigned to Thingol, at which point his brother was renamed to Q. Olwë (MR/82). At this stage, the Sindarin form of his name Elu was also introduced (MR/86).