Earlier (and ultimately rejected) name for ᴱQ. Ilverin, also appearing as Elbenil (LT2/202). Its initial element is elwen “heart”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Ilverin).
Early Quenya
elwe
masculine name. Elwe
elwenil(do)
masculine name. Littleheart
elwen
noun. heart
A word appearing as ᴱQ. Elben “heart” in the Name-list to the Fall of Gondolin of the 1910s (LT2/202; PE15/23), but as ᴱQ. Elwen “heart” in the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon under the early root ᴱ√LEFE (QL/35, 52). These words were connected to the character G. Elfrith who vanished from later versions of the Legendarium.
ilverin
masculine name. Littleheart
Qenya name of the “Gong Warden” of Cottage of the Lost Play (LT1/52), a character that does not appear in Tolkien’s later writings.
Conceptual Development: The name first appeared as ᴱQ. Elwenil(do), a diminutive form of ᴱQ. elwen “heart” (LT1A/Ilverin, LT2/202), a word appearing in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s (QL/35, 52). Tolkien apparently revised its etymology, but the revised form of its initial element does not appear, though its Gnomish equivalent does: G. ilf (GL/50).
elben
noun. heart
hon
noun. heart
honde
noun. heart
hondo
noun. heart
londa
noun. heart
At this stage, the Qenya name of the leader of the third tribe of Elves, the Solosimpi (SM/13). See Q. Elwë for further discussion.