falqa

noun. (mountain) pass, ravine, cliff, cleft

A noun in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s glossed “cleft, cliff, pass in mountains, ravine”, a derivative of ᴱ√FḶKḶ “cleave, hew” (QL/38). It also appeared in the Poetic and Mythological Words of Eldarissa with the gloss “pass, ravine, cliff” (PME/38). In the Name-list to The Fall of Gondolin the word falqa was mentioned as a cognate to G. falc “cleft” (PE15/24) and a variant form falqe appeared as a cognate to ᴱN. falch “cleft, ravine” in Early Noldorin Word-lists of the 1920s (PE13/143). There is no mention of the Qenya form thereafter, though its cognate seems to have survived in Sindarin as an element of the name S. Orfalch Echor (S/239).

falqalaure

place name. Golden Cleft

Qenya name for G. Glorfalc from early name lists (PE13/101), a compound of falqa “cleft” and laure “gold”. It also appeared as (rejected) Laurefalqa and Kulufalqa, the latter with kulu “gold”, instead.

falqan

noun. large sword