An island west of Drengist named on a map of Beleriand from the 1950s, but not on the map in the published Silmarillion (WJ/181-2). This name may be simply be ened(h) “middle” used as a name.
Sindarin
ened
noun. centre
ened
noun. core, centre, middle
ened
place name. Ened
enedh
noun. centre, middle, centre, middle; [N.] core
@@@ Tolkien vacillated between enedh (< √ENED) and ened (perhaps < √ENET) in his later writings. In HSD/ened, it is suggested that ened is the likely “final” form based on Enedwaith as it appears in The Lord of the Rings and as discussed on Let/224. I prefer enedh for better compatibility with its Quenya cognate endë as in Q. enderi “middle-days” (LotR/1108, endë + ré “day”). If the Sindarin form were ened < √ENET, the corresponding Quenya form would instead be entë. Furthermore, in a general discussion of the uses of dh on VT42/20, Tolkien states that “Enedhwaith is misspelt”, possibly meaning that the normal spelling (Enedwaith) is not strictly correct.
Cognates
- Q. endë “centre, middle, centre, middle; [ᴹQ.] core” ✧ VT48/25
Derivations
Element in
- ᴺS. enedhren “central, essential”
- S. Enedwaith “Middle-region, Middle-folk”
- S. lebenedh “middle finger”
- S. Lond Daer Enedh “Great Middle Haven” ✧ UT/264
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources √HENET > ente > ened [ɣenet] > [enet] > [ened] ✧ VT41/16 √ened/l > eneð [ened] > [eneð] ✧ VT48/25 Variations
- Enedh ✧ UT/264
- ened ✧ VT41/16
- eneð ✧ VT48/25
onod
noun. Ent
onod
Ent
pl1. enyd, pl2. onodrim _ n. _Ent.
onod
noun. Ent
The Sindarin word for “Ent” (Let/224), appearing its plural forms Onodrim and Enyd in Appendix F of The Lord of the Rings (LotR/1130).
Conceptual Development: The earliest name of the “Entwash” in Lord of the Rings drafts of the 1940s was N. Ogodrûth, indicating a previous form of this word: N. Ogod (TI/250).
Element in
- S. Onodló “Entwash” ✧ UTI/Enyd
Variations
- onod ✧ Let/224; PE17/083
onodrim
noun. the Ents, as a race
ened
adverb. moreover
Cognates
- Q. entë “moreover, further(more), what is more, moreover, further(more), what is more; *next (of time or in a sequence)”
Derivations
- √ENET “*one more”
enedh
middle
enedh (core, center), pl. enidh
enedh
middle
(core, center), pl. enidh
enedh
core
1) enedh (middle, center), pl. enidh, 2) nest (heart, center), pl. nist
enedh
core
(middle, center), pl. enidh
onod
ent
Onod (pl. Enyd, coll. pl. Onodrim) (Names:165, Letters:178)
onod
ent
(pl. Enyd, coll. pl. Onodrim) (Names:165, Letters:178)
nest
core
(heart, center), pl. nist
While the word is written enedh in the Etymologies, it seems that Tolkien considered and reconsidered its form throughout his life. Late rough jottings (c. 1968), as well as the text of letter no. 168 and the fact that the toponym Enedwaith was never changed on the LotR map, seem to imply that ened is the (most) definitive form. See also the possibly related preposition ned , which has sometimes been suggested to mean "in" (while again a prefix nedh- is seen in the Etymologies)