Glorfindel

noun. Sindarized form of Q

prop. n. Sindarized form of Q. Laurefin(de), Laurefindele. >> findel

Glorfindel

noun. Glorfindel

prop.n. >> findel

glorfindel

masculine name. Golden-hair

A Noldorin hero of the First and Third Age (S/194, LotR/209), possibly the same individual (PM/377-384). His name is translated “Golden-hair”, a combination of glaur “gold” and †findel “head of hair” (PE17/17, 34), ultimately derived from his Quenya name Laurefindele (PE17/119). The ancient nature of this name is indicated by the fact that the medial nd had not yet become nn as was usual in Sindarin (LotR/1115).

Conceptual Development: The name G. Glorfindel appeared in the earliest Lost Tales, translated “Goldtress” (LT2/216). Several variant forms appeared in the contemporaneous Gnomish Lexicon: Glorfinnl amd Glorfingl, translated “Goldlocks” (GL/40). The name remained N. Glorfindel in Silmarillion drafts (SM/37, LR/142) as well as The Etymologies from the 1930s, with essentially the same derivation as the one given above (Ety/LÁWAR, SPIN). In some Notes on Names (NN) from the 1957, Tolkien experimented with inverting the name to Finglor (PE17/119).

Cognates

• Q. Laurefindele “Golden Haired” ✧ PE17/017; PE17/119; PE17/119

Elements

Word	Gloss
glaur	“gold [light or colour]”
finnel	“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”

Variations

• Finglor ✧ PE17/119

glorfindel

noun. golden hair

glaur (“golden light”) + fîndel (“(braided) hair”) Perhaps AS, that would explain -nd- not changed to -nn-; the name stated by Tolkien to have “escaped reconsideration…and now difficult to fit into S”.

Ingol

noun. Sindarized form of Q

prop. n. Sindarized form of Q. Ingoldo.

Fingon

noun. Sindarized form of Q

_prop. n. _Sindarized form of Q. Finicā(n. Tolkien proposed to change it : Finion or Fingorn. . This gloss was rejected.

Arnor

Sindarized form of Q

topon. Sindarized form of Q. Aranor 'kingly, chief land'. Pure Sindarin forme Ardor. >> Ardor

Feanor

noun. Sindarized form of Q

prop. n. Sindarized form of Q. Feanór.

Glorfindel

Glorfindel

Glorfindel means (S "golden haired", pron. [ɡlorˈfindel]). It is the Sindarin calque of Laurefindil (Q: "golden head of hair", pron. N [ˌlaʊreˈfindil], V [ˌlaʊreˈɸindil]), which is made up of two components; laure means "golden color" and findil or findilë means "head of hair".