lest

noun. girdle, girdle, *belt

An element in the name Lest Melian “Girdle of Melian” for the magical barrier around Doriath (WJ/228).

Neo-Sindarin: For purposes of Neo-Sindarin, I would also use this word for “✱belt”.

lest

noun. girdle

lest melian

proper name. Girdle of Melian

Name of the magical boundary that Melian placed around Doriath, translated “Girdle of Melian” (WJ/228). This name is combination of her name with the otherwise unattested noun lest “girdle”.

Conceptual Development: This name was first written as List Melian (WJ/228).

lest

girdle

lest (boundary, fence), pl. list

lest

girdle

(boundary, fence), pl. list

lesta

noun. *girdle

An element in the name Q. Lestanórë for Doriath (WJ/369), untranslated but probably the cognate to S. lest “girdle” from the name Lest Melian “Girdle of Melian” (WJ/228).

lestanórë

place name. Doriath, *(lit.) Land of the Girdle

Given as the Quenya name of Doriath in the essay Quendi and Eldar from 1959-60, attested only in its genitive form Lestanórëo in the phrase Elwe, Aran Lestanórëo “Elwe, King of Doriath” (WJ/369). Its final element is certainly nórë “land”. Its initial element lesta resembles S. lest “girdle” in the name S. Lest Melian “Girdle of Melian” and may have a similar meaning. In the earlier poem Fíriel’s Song from the 1930s, the instrumental form lestanen of ᴹQ. lesta was translated “in measure” (LR/72), though it isn’t clear whether the meaning “measure” remained valid when Quendi and Eldar was written.

Conceptual Development: The name ᴱQ. Artanor was given as the equivalent to the precursor of Doriath: G. Dor Athro “Land Beyond” (LT2A/Artanor).

quilta

girdle, belt

quilta noun "girdle, belt" (QL:78); the same source also lists a verb qilti- (sic) "gird, encircle"; one could perhaps read *quilta- if this verb were to be adapted to Tolkiens later Quenya.

quilta

noun. belt, girdle

kwilit

root. belt, girdle