n. Bot. nicotiana, Gondor S. For 'pipeweed'. Q. alanesse, alenesse. >> galen
Sindarin
galenas
noun. pipeweed, nicotiana, *tobacco
Cognates
- Q. alanessë “nicotiana, pipeweed, nicotiana, pipeweed, *tobacco” ✧ PE17/100
Element in
- ᴺS. galenathrod “(smoking) pipe”
Elements
Word Gloss GAL “grow (like plants), flourish, be healthy, be vigorous, bloom, grow (like plants), flourish, be healthy, be vigorous, bloom, [ᴹ√] thrive” nes- “sweet smelling” -as “abstract noun” Variations
- Galenas ✧ LotRI/Galenas
galenas
noun. nicotiana
galenas
noun. pipe-weed (leaf) or "westmansweed", a variety of Nicotiana
galenas
pipe-weed
galenas (i **alenais) (tobacco), pl. gelenais (i ngelenais = i ñelenais), coll pl. galenassath**
galenas
pipe-weed
galenas (i **alenais), pl. gelenais (i ngelenais = i ñelenais), coll pl. galenassath**
galenas
tobacco
1) galenas (i **alenais) (pipe-weed), pl. gelenais (i ngelenais = i ñelenais), coll pl. galenassath, 2) romloth (”horn-flower”), pl. remlyth (archaic römlyth**)
galenas
pipe-weed
(i ’alenais) (tobacco), pl. gelenais (i ngelenais = i ñelenais), coll pl. galenassath
galenas
tobacco
(i ’alenais) (pipe-weed), pl. gelenais (i ngelenais = i ñelenais), coll pl. galenassath
romloth
tobacco
(”horn-flower”), pl. remlyth (archaic römlyth)
The Sindarin word for “pipeweed [✱tobacco]” (LotR/869). In notes on Words, Phrases and Passages in the Lord of the Rings from the late 1950s or early 1960s, Tolkien gave it the gloss “nicotiana” and said its original form was galanes, assembled from [[q|[g]ala-]] “plant, grow” and (primitive?) ✶nes- “sweet smelling”, with a Quenya cognate Q. alanessë (PE17/100).
Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. fuglas “tobacco” (with variants fuglos, fauglas), a combination of G. fug- “smoulder” and G. lass “leaf” (GL/36). Some remnant of this earlier form might be seen in N. fuilas, the first word Tolkien gave for pipeweed in Lord of the Rings drafts of the 1940s (WR/38). Tolkien revised this to N. marlas and then N. romloth before settling on N. galenas (WR/38).