eriol
adjective. single, alone
erolamo
masculine name. one who dreams alone, (lit.) alone-dreamer
erinqua
adjective. single, alone
erikwa
adjective. single, alone
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eriol
masculine name. Eriol
eriol
masculine name. One Who Dreams Alone
ereol
masculine name. Ereol
Another name for Ælfwine appearing in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, revised from Eriol (LR/203). This character was the Anglo-saxon traveller who translated the tales of the Elves into Old English while in Tol Eressëa; this was the (fictional) source Tolkien used in his own writing of the tales.
Conceptual Development: This name is a remnant of ᴱQ. Eriol from the earliest Lost Tales who played the same role; in those early tales the name was given as Qenya and glossed “One Who Dreams Alone” (LT1/14). The name appeared in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s as Erioll-, who was described as “a dreamer” under the root ᴱ√OLO (QL/69). Christopher Tolkien suggested the name was derived from a combination of the roots ᴱ√ERE “remain alone” and ᴱ√LORO “slumber” (LT1A/Eriol).
Tolkien introduced the name Ælfwine for this character towards the end of the Lost Tales (LT2/278), but the name Eriol/Ereol continued to appear in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/165-6, note #10; LR/203). In Tolkien’s later writings, however, he used only the name Ælfwine.
A word in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “alone, single” under the root ᴹ√ERE “be alone, deprived” (Ety/ERE). This word also appeared in notes on The Feanorian Alphabet from the 1930s and 40s in the diacritic name peg eriol “single dot” (PE22/31; PE23/22).