find

noun. tress; single hair, tress, [ON.] lock of hair; [ᴱN.] hair (in general); [S.] single hair

This word had a quite lengthy history as an element in the name S. Glorfindel “Golden Hair”. It appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as G. finn “a lock of hair” (GL/35), simply as ᴱN. find or finn “hair” in Early Noldorin Word-lists (PE13/143), and as Old Noldorin sphinde “lock of hair” from The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√SPIN (Ety/SPIN). In notes from the mid-1960s Tolkien said that find, finn meant a “single hair (of man or elf)” vs. S. †findel for a head of hair (PE17/17), but in The Shibboleth of Fëanor from 1968 Tolkien said it meant “tress” and was derived from primitive ✶phindē (PM/362 note #37).

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I’d use fîn for a single hair, find for hair in general or for a tress or lock of hair, and finnel for an entire head of hair.

find

noun. a tress

find

noun. single hair

n. single hair (of man or elf). >> finn

finduilas

feminine name. Finduilas

Daughter of Orodreth who loved Túrin (S/209). The initial element of her name seems to be fîn “hair” (SA/fin), but the meaning of the rest of her name is unclear. This was also the name of the wife of Denethor (LotR/961).

Conceptual Development: When this character first appeared in the Lays of Beleriand from the 1920s, she was briefly named ᴱN. Findóriel, but was soon renamed ᴱN. Finduilas (LB/81), which remained her name thereafter. This name was also briefly used for the characters Arwen (WR/370) and Galadriel (TI/249).

Findrod

noun. Findrod

prop. n.

findor

masculine name. Findor

An earlier birth name of Gil-galad, though Tolkien’s writing is difficult to read and the exact form is unclear (WJ/56). This name may contain the element fin seen in the Sindarin names of the descendants of Q. Finwë, combined with the suffix -dor “✱king, lord”. His later birth name is given as Ereinion (S/154).

findegil

masculine name. King’s Writer

A scribe who worked on the Red Book in the Fourth Age, described as the “King’s Writer” (LotR/14). It seems likely that the second element of his name is the lenited form of tegil “pen”, but the meaning of the initial element is unclear. David Salo suggested it might be find “hair” (GS/349).

findel

Poet

n. Poet. head of hair (fax). Preserved mainly in such old names as Glorfindel 'Golden-hair'. >> find, finn, finnel

Findelor

noun. 'hair-golden'

prop. n. 'hair-golden'. Q. Findelaure. >> findel, Finglor

findel

adjective. having beautiful hair

adj. having beautiful hair. >> Glorfindel

findel

noun. Fairfax

prop. n. Fairfax. >> findel

finde

noun. fine hair

n. #fine hair. >> deil

findel

noun/adjective. head of hair, fax, mass of long hair; having fine or beautiful hair

fing

noun. lock of hair

A noun appearing in 1967 notes on the Nomenclature of the Lord of the Rings as an element in Finglas “Leaflock” (RC/760). The form fineg appeared unglossed in notes from around 1965 as a derivative of ✶phinik (PE17/17). The word fing is more obscure than S. find of similar meaning.

Conceptual Development: The word G. fingl or finnil “a tress” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s (GL/35). In that period, the gl was probably the result of the sound change whereby ðl became gl, since this early form was likely derived from the root ᴱ√FIŘI [FIÐI] (QL/38). When it first appeared, the name N. Finglas (= find + las?) may also have had a similar sound change, but since Tolkien abandoned that phonetic rule in Sindarin of the 1950s and 60s (compare S. edlenn vs. N. eglenn “exiled”), Tolkien needed to come up with a new etymology.

finn

noun. single hair

n. single hair (of man or elf). >> find

finn

noun. tress; single hair, tress; single hair; [ᴱN.] hair; [G.] lock of hair

find

tress

find (lock of hair). Construct fin; no distinct pl. form; coll pl. finnath.

find

lock of hair

find (tress). Construct fin; no distinct pl. form; coll pl. finnath

find

hair

(construct fin), no distinct pl. form, coll. pl. finnath.

find

tress

(lock of hair). Construct fin; no distinct pl. form; coll pl. finnath.

find

lock of hair

(tress). Construct fin; no distinct pl. form; coll pl. finnath

Findis

Findis

Her name seems to be a combination of her parents' names and obviously means "skilled woman". See Finwe#Etymology and Indis#Etymology

fend

door

(threshold), construct fen, pl. find, coll. pl. fennath, 2) fennas (gateway), pl. fennais, coll. pl. fennassath, 3) annon (great gate), pl. ennyn

fend

treshold

fend (door), construct fen, pl. find, coll. pl. fennath

fend

treshold

(door), construct fen, pl. find, coll. pl. fennath

fing

lock of hair

fing (no distinct pl. form)

hir-

verb. find

hir-

verb. to find, *light on, chance on

rada

find a way

rada- (make a way) (i rada, idh radar)

rada

find a way

(make a way) (i rada, idh radar)

finnel

noun/adjective. head of hair, fax, mass of long hair; having fine or beautiful hair, head of hair, fax, mass of long hair; having fine or beautiful hair; [N.] (braided) hair; [G.] tress

This word had a quite lengthy history as an element in the name S. Glorfindel “Golden Hair”. It appeared in the Name-list to the Fall of Gondolin as G. findel “tress” (PE15/24) and in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon with the gloss “a lock of hair”, but in that document it was deleted and replaced by G. finn “a lock of hair” and G. fingl or finnil “tress” (GL/35). It appeared as N. finnel “(braided) hair” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√SPIN (Ety/SPIN).

In Notes on Names (NN) from 1957 findel was an adjective meaning “having beautiful hair” or “having fine hair” (PE17/119, 151). In a torn half sheet from the late 1950s or early 1960s it was OS. findel, S. finnel “mass of long hair”, and in a document from around 1965 it was (archaic) findel “head of hair, fax” from primitive ✶spindilā (PE17/17). In this last document Tolkien said it was “preserved mainly in such old names as Glorfindel”, so Tolkien may have intended that it was no longer in active use in modern Sindarin.

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I’d use fîn for a single hair, find for a tress or lock of hair or hair in general, with finnel used for an entire head of hair, assuming finnel survived into modern Sindarin with the usual sound change of medial nd to nn. I would assume it can also be used adjectivally in reference to having beautiful hair.

finnel

noun. mass of long hair

n. mass of long hair. >> find, finn

Finglor

noun. 'hair-golden'

prop. n. 'hair-golden'. Q. Findelaure. >> findel, Findelor

gwindor

masculine name. Gwindor

An Elf of Nargothrond who brought Túrin to that city (S/207-212). The meaning of this name is unclear, but David Salo suggested it might be a combination of gwain “new” and -dor “lord” (GS/352).

Conceptual Development: In the earliest Lost Tales, this character was first named G. Flinding (LT2/124), and might contain ᴱN. flind “fleet-footed, swift”. In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s his name was revised to N. Findor > N. Gwindor (SM/312).

fîn

hair

1) (a single hair) fîn (construct fin), no distinct pl. form. (PM:362), 2) (lock of hair, tress) find (construct fin), no distinct pl. form, coll. pl. finnath.

rada

make a way

rada- (find a way) (i rada, idh radar)

rada

make a way

(find a way) (i rada, idh radar)

Faelivrin

Faelivrin (name)

Faelivrin was the name that Gwindor bestowed upon Finduilas, the daughter of King Orodreth of Nargothrond, due to his love for her beauty. This name referred to "the gleam of the sun on the pools of Ivrin". Finduilas had loved Gwindor (they had been betrothed before the Nirnaeth Arnoediad) but soon her heart turned to the man that Gwindor had brought into the Elven kingdom, Túrin.

finnel

braided tress of hair

finnel (pl. finnil). Archaic †findel (pl. findil).

finnel

braided tress of hair

finnel (pl. finnil). Archaic †findel (pl. †findil).

finnel

braided tress of hair

(pl. finnil). Archaic †findel (pl. findil).

fidhren

adjective. having hair, -haired

annon

noun. great door or gate

aur

noun. Poet

n. Poet. #sunlight, daylight. Q. aure.

coru

adjective. cunning, wily

elein

Poet

pl2. eleniath, elenwaith n. Poet. star.

ell

Poet

_ n. Poet. _only applied to the Noldorin Exiles. A word borrowed from Quenya. >> elles, ellon

elles

noun. Poet

_ fem. n. Poet. _only applied to the Noldorin Exiles. A word borrowed from Quenya. >> ell, elles

ellon

noun. Poet

_ masc. n. Poet. _only applied to the Noldorin Exiles. A word borrowed from Quenya. >> ell, ellon

ennorath

noun. Poet

pl2. n. Poet. 'Middle-earth', '(all) the Middle-lands', the group of central lands (between the seas). A poetic expression for the usual Ennor. _o galadh-remmin ennorath _lit. 'from tree-tangled middlelands'. >> -ath, Ennor

fen

noun. door, threshold

fen

door

_ n. _door. Q. fenna. >> fennas

fen(n)

noun. door, door; [N.] threshold

A word for “door” in the name Fen Hollen “Closed Door” (LotR/826; RC/550). In notes from December 1959 (D59), Tolkien based it on the root √PHEN and gave its Quenya equivalent as fenna, indicating a primitive form of ✱phennā (PE17/181). If so, its ordinary form should be fenn, and this was indeed the form in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s (WR/341). Perhaps fen is a reduced pseudo-prefixal form.

Conceptual Development: In The Etymologies of the 1930s Tolkien had N. fenn “threshold” derived from ON. phenda under the root ᴹ√PHEN (Ety/PHEN).

Neo-Sindarin: I don’t think the senses “door” and “threshold” are likely to coexist, so for purposes of Neo-Sindarin I would limit fenn to “door” and would use ᴺS. fend < ✱phenda for “threshold”, following the principle that nd remained “at the end of fully accented monosyllables” in Sindarin (LotR/1115).

finn-

noun. a tress

fîn

noun. a tress

laws

noun. hair ringlet

maw

noun. Poet

_ n. Poet. _hand. Q. má. >> maetha-

oron

Poet

pl1. œryn, eryn _ n. Poet. _upstanding plant, general word for tree. >> orn

raeda-

verb. to catch in a net

sadar

Poet

pl1. sedair n. Poet. trusty follower, loyal companion (member of "comitatus" of a lord, or prince). >> sadron

sadron

Poet

pl1. sedryn n. Poet. trusty follower, loyal companion (member of "comitatus" of a lord, or prince). Probably form of _sadar with masc. suffix -on_. >> sadar

taur

noun. Poet

n.Bot. Poet. or Arch. #willow. >> taor, tathar

túr

noun. Poet

n.Bot. Poet. or Arch. #willow. >> tathar, taur

bang

noun. staff

coru

cunning

(adj.) coru (wily), lenited goru, analogical pl. cery. Archaic corw (pl. cyrw).

coru

cunning

(wily), lenited goru, analogical pl. cery. Archaic corw (pl. cyrw).

curu

cunning device

(i guru, o churu) (skill, craft), pl. cyry (i chyry) (VT45:24). Similar forms function as adjectives:

fast

shaggy hair

(pl. faist if there is a pl.).

fîn

hair

(construct fin), no distinct pl. form. (PM:362)

gad

catch

(i ’âd, i ngedir = i ñedir), pa.t. gant;

raeda

catch in a net

(i raeda, idh raedar) (VT42:12)

findobar

masculine name. Findobar

A son of Fingon in a genealogy associated with the early Annals of Beleriand (LR/403). The name also appears in The Etymologies as Findobar (Ety/MBAR) and Findabar (Ety/PHIN). The name appeared to be a compound of ON. phinde “skill” (also an element of his father’s name) and the suffixal form -bar of bár “home”.

finduilas

feminine name. Finduilas

findros

proper name. Findros

A name appears in The Etymologies from the 1930s (Ety/RUS). Its final element is rhoss “polished metal”. The meaning of its initial element is unclear, but it might be ON. phinde “skill”.

findel

noun. (braided) hair

fend

noun. door, threshold

rada-

verb. to make a way, find a way

gwindor

masculine name. Gwindor

ellonel

feminine name. Ellonel

annon

noun. great door or gate

corw

adjective. cunning, wily

curu

noun. cunning

fast

noun. shaggy hair

fenn

noun. door, threshold

finnel

noun. (braided) hair

gad-

verb. to catch

lhaws

noun. hair ringlet

findis

feminine name. Findis

Second child and eldest daughter of Finwë, the first born from his union with Indis (MR/207, PM/343). Her name was a combination of the names of her parents (PM/343).

findaráto

masculine name. *[Golden] Hair Champion

The father-name of S. Finrod from which his Sindarin name was derived (PM/346). The first element of his name seems to be findë “hair”, perhaps in reference to his golden hair (UT/229), but also alluding to his grandfather Finwë as with the name of his cousin Findecáno (PM/345). The second element seems to be aráto “champion” (SA/ar(a)), though it may actually be a masculinized form of the adjective arata “noble”. Like his brother Angaráto, his name is “Telerin in form” to honour their mother, with the adjectival element arata second. The more natural Quenya form of his name would have been Artafindë (PM/346).

Conceptual Development: In some earlier notes, his (archaic) Quenya name is given as Finaratā >> Finaratō (PE17/39).

findecáno

masculine name. *Hair Commander

The Quenya name of S. Fingon, a compound of findë “hair” and cáno “commander” (PM/345). The initial element of his name alluded to, but was not directly derived from, his grandfather’s name Finwë (PM/345).

Conceptual Development: In earlier genealogy tables, his name was given as Finicáno. In the last such table, he appeared as Findicáno >> Findecáno (PM/361).

findelë

noun. tress, lock [of hair]

A word for “a head of hair, a person’s hair as a whole” appearing in The Shibboleth of Fëanor from 1968 (PM/345). In notes from 1965 Tolkien instead gave Q. findilë (with an i) for “head of hair” (PE17/17).

Conceptual Development: In the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, Tolkien had ᴱQ. findl “lock of hair” under the early root ᴱ√FIŘI [FIÐI] (QL/38). In the contemporaneous Name-list to the Fall of Gondolin he had ᴱQ. findil “lock” (PE15/24).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use findelë for a lock or tress of hair, and 1968 findessë for a full head of hair (PM/345); see the entry for findë for more suggestions on the application (Neo) Quenya hair words.

findessë

noun. head of hair, person’s hair as a whole

A word for “a head of hair, a person’s hair as a whole” appearing in The Shibboleth of Fëanor from 1968 (PM/345). In notes from 1965 Tolkien instead gave Q. findilë for “head of hair” (PE17/17). I would use the 1968 word findessë for purposes of Neo-Quenya; see the entry for findë for more suggestions on the application (Neo) Quenya hair words.

findë

noun. hair (especially of the head), tress or plait of hair, hair (especially of the head); tress or plait of hair, [ᴹQ.] braid of hair

A word mentioned by Tolkien in The Shibboleth of Fëanor from 1968 with glosses “hair, especially of the head” (PM/340) and “hair — a tress or plait of hair” (PM/345). The word finde also appeared in Notes on Names (NN) from 1957 with the gloss “tress, lock” alongside a long form Q. findelë of the same meaning (PE17/119). In The Etymologies of the 1930s, it was ᴹQ. finde “tress, braid of hair” under the root ᴹ√SPIN (Ety/SPIN). The root was likewise √SPIN(ID) in the 1957 Notes on Names, but in the 1968 Shibboleth Tolkien used the root form √PHIN.

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I would use findë as a general word for hair (though primarily used for head-hair), also able to refer to a tress, plait or braid of hair, though the word Q. findelë is more specific to that sense. An entire head of hair would be Q. findessë (PM/345), while a single hair would be Q. finë (PE17/17; PM/340). Despite Tolkien’s 1968 change of √SPIN >> √PHIN, I would assume a root form of √SPIN(ID) “hair”, since elsewhere √PHIN usually meant “skill(ful)” (PE17/17, 119, 181; Ety/PHIN).

finda

adjective. having hair, -haired

A word in The Shibboleth of Fëanor from 1968 glossed “having hair, -haired”, it is simply an adjectival form of Q. findë “hair” (PM/340).

findelë

tress, lock

findelë noun "tress, lock" (PE17:119); apparently a synonym of findë #1, q.v.

findë

hair

findë (1) noun "hair" (especially of the head) (PM:340), "a tress or plait of hair" (PM:345), "tress, braid of hair, lock of hair" (SPIN)

findë

cunning

findë (2) noun? (less likely adj.) "cunning" (LT1:253; this "Qenya" word is possibly obsoleted by # 1 above)

Findaráto

hair-champion

Findaráto masc. name *"Hair-champion", Sindarized as Finrod(SA:ar(a) )

Findecáno

-káno

Findecáno ("-káno") masc. name *"Hair-commander"; Sindarized as Fingon(PM:344)

finda

having hair, -haired

finda (1) adj. "having hair, -haired" (Tolkien's gloss "-haired" evidently means that finda may be used in compounds, like *carnifinda "red-haired") (PM:340)

finda

fine & delicately made

finda (2) adj. "fine & delicately made" (PE17:181)

findel

having beautiful hair

findel adj. "having beautiful hair" (PE17:119); it is possible that this is intended as Sindarin.

findessë

head of hair, a person's hair as a whole

findessë noun "a head of hair, a person's hair as a whole" (PM:345). Compare findilë.

findilë

head of hair

findilë noun "a head of hair". Compare findessë. (PE17:17)

findl

lock of hair, tress

findl noun "lock of hair, tress" (but findil elsewhere in LotR-style Quenya, no word can end in -dl). (LT2:341)

findilë

noun. head of hair

finda

adjective. fine and delicately made

finë

hair

finë (1) (stem *fini-, given the primitive form ¤phini) noun "a hair" _(PM:340, PE17:17) or "larch" (SPIN)_

laurefindele

masculine name. Golden Haired

The Quenya name of Glorfindel from which his Sindarin name is derived (PE17/17, 119). It is a compound of laurë “gold” and findelë “lock, head of hair”.

Conceptual Development: In an early name list, ᴱQ. Laurifindl or ᴱQ. Kulufindl was given as the Quenya equivalent of G. Glorfindel (PE13/104). In later writings, the name appeared variously as Laurefindil, Laurefin(de) and Laurefindele, and in one place was inverted to Findelaure (PE17/17, 119).

#tuv-

find

#tuv- vb. "find", perfect #utúvië "has found" in Aragorn's exclamation when he found the sapling of the White Tree: utúvienyes "I have found it" (utúvie-nye-s "have found-I-it") (LotR3:VI ch. 5)

hir-

find

hir- vb. "find", future tense hiruva in Namárië (hiruvalyë "thou shalt find") (Nam, RGEO:67, VT49:39); Hirilondë "Haven-finder", name of a ship (UT:192)

findë

findë

The word derives from Common Eldarin phini- ("a single hair") and phindē ("a tress").

ecces-

to find out, bring out by examining, or eyeing[?]

ecces- ("k") (þ) vb. "to find out, bring out by examining, or eyeing[?]" (PE17:156). Pa.t. probably *eccensë; compare ces-.

findimaitar

noun. barber, hairdresser

A neologism for “barber, hairdresser” coined by Tamas Ferencz, a combination of Q. findë “hair” and Q. maitar “artist”.

findori

noun. barley

A neologism for “barley” coined by Helge Fauskanger for his NQNT (NQNT), perhaps combination of findë “hair” and [ᴱQ.] ore (ori-) “grain”. In NQNT, this appeared only in the possessive form findoriva “of barley”, indicating a stem for of findori-. I prefer ᴺQ. ori as the Neo-Quenya adaptation of ᴱQ. ore “grain”, so I would assume the uninflected form of this noun was findori.

ecces-

verb. to find out, bring out by examining or eyeing[?]

hir-

verb. to find

tuv-

verb. to find, discover

cim-

verb. light on, find, come by

rata-

verb. to make a way, find a way

loxë

hair

loxë (1) ("ks")noun "hair" (LOK). In later sources Tolkien uses findë, findessë, findilë for "hair", leaving the conceptual status of loxë uncertain.

tuvu-

receive

tuvu- vb. "receive" (GL:71; is this "Qenya" word related to #tuv- "find"?)

phindelë

mass of long hair

phindelë noun "mass of long hair" (PE17:17; the normal Quenya spelling should be findelë, cf. findilë

vandl

staff

vandl noun "staff" (LT1:264) (No word can end in -dl in Tolkien's later Quenya; the word may be adapted as *vandil. Compare findl, findil.)

atsa

catch, hook, claw

atsa noun "catch, hook, claw" (GAT)

cam-

receive

#cam- vb. "receive" (attested in the past tense #camnë with pronominal endings added: camnelyes "you received it") (VT47:21)

fende

noun. door

fendë

noun. door

A word appearing as {phende >>} fende “door” in Late Notes on Verb Structure (LVS) from 1969 (PE22/166 and note #112). The deleted variant probably indicates its primitive form.

Conceptual Development: The earliest “door” word was ᴱQ. posta in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root {ᴱ√PONO >>} ᴱ√BOÐO (QL/75). Another precursor was ᴹQ. fenda “threshold” in The Etymologies of the 1930s under the root ᴹ√PHEN (Ety/PHEN). In notes from December 1959 (D59) Tolkien gave Q. fenna as a derivative of √PHEN and cognate to S. fen, all meaning “door” (PE17/181).

Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I prefer 1969 fendë as the word for “door”, but I think [ᴹQ.] fenda “threshold” might remain viable as a separate derivative of the root.

fenna

door

fenna noun "door" (PE17:45, 181)

fenna

noun. door

finië

cunning

finië noun? "cunning" (LT1:253)

phin-

single hair, filament

phin- noun "a single hair, filament" (PE17:17); this is may be seen as an "element" rather than a regular word; the spelling ph rather than f is unusual for Quenya. See fine.

finië

noun. cunning

vandil

noun. staff

vanga

noun. staff

findarātō

masculine name. findarātō

khir

root. light on, find

A root serving as the basis for Q. hir- “find” from Notes on Galadriel’s Song (NGS) from the late 1950s or early 1960s (PE17/75).

phindē

noun. tress

spindē

noun. tress, braid of hair

spindilā

noun. head of hair

phen

root. door

The root ᴹ√PHEN first appeared (unglossed) in The Etymologies of the 1930s with derivatives like ᴹQ. fenda “threshold” and N. fenn “threshold, door” (Ety/PHEN). The root √PHEN “door” reappeared in etymological notes from 1959 as the basis for Q. fendë/S. fen “door” (PE17/181). The most notable name associated with this root was S. Fen Hollen “Closed Door” from The Lord of the Rings (LotR/826; RC/550) along with its precursors in LotR drafts: N. Fenn Forn(en) and N. Fenn Uiforn (WR/338, 341).

phin

root. hair

thark Reconstructed

noun. staff