Early Quenya
ere(n)
noun. iron, steel
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!
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!
ere(n)
noun. iron, steel
A word in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “iron or steel” (QL/36), equated ᴱQ. yeren which was elsewhere glossed “pig iron” (QL/105). ᴱQ. ĕrĕ(n) was also mentioned (along with yĕrĕ(n)) in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon in the entry for G. ger “ore, metal” (GL/38). Its most notable use in the 1910s was as an element in ᴱQ. Eremandu or Erimandu “Hells of Iron” (PE15/20), a variant of ᴱQ. Angamandi (LT1/77). Since Tolkien only used the latter form in the narratives, it is likely Tolkien abandoned eren early on.