noldo

noun. Noldo

Noldo, Gnome

noldo

proper name. one of the wise folk, Gnome

An Elf of the second tribe, known as “The Wise” (WJ/383). Their name developed from the primitive root √ÑGOL having to do with wisdom (PM/360, WJ/383).

Conceptual Development: The name ᴱQ. Noldo dates back to the earliest Lost Tales, and in the Qenya Lexicon from the 1910s, where it already had the derivation given above (QL/67). In Tolkien’s earlier writings, he often translated this name as “Gnome”, in the sense of the Greek origin of this word (having to do with thought and wisdom) rather than that of a dwarf-like creature. This translation of ᴹQ. Noldo continued to appear in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (LR/201), but became less common in Tolkien’s later writings, and was not used in the published version of The Silmarillion.

In Tolkien’s earliest writings, the plural form of this word was usually ᴱQ. Noldoli (LT1/21), but by the 1930s this had been replaced by ᴹQ. Noldor (LR/119), the form that was used thereafter.

In notes from the 1950s, Tolkien considered an alternate etymology of this name from the root √ÑGOL “dark-hued, dark-brown” referring to their dark hair (PE17/125), just as the tribal name of the Vanya referred to their fair hair. Presumably he considered this alternate origin because the newly-awakened Noldor would not yet have been known for their wisdom, but there is no evidence that this alternate etymology was anything other than a transient idea.

Changes

• ŋoldo → ngoldo ✧ LotR/1123

Cognates

• Ed. Nóm “Wisdom” ✧ WJI/Noldor
• Ed. Sômar “Wisdom” ✧ WJI/Noldor
• S. golodh “lore-master, sage” ✧ MR/470; PE17/141
• S. Golodh “one of the wise folk, Noldo” ✧ PE17/153; PM/360; SA/golodh; SI/Golodhrim; SI/Noldor; WJ/364; WJI/Golodh; MR/350; WJ/383; WJI/Noldor
• T. Goldo “Noldo” ✧ PM/360; WJI/Goldo; WJ/383; WJI/Noldor
• S. Gódhel “(Exiled) Noldo” ✧ WJI/Noldor

Derivations

• ✶ñgolodō “lore-master, sage” ✧ MR/350; MR/470; PE17/141; PE17/153; PE19/076; PM/360; WJ/364; WJ/380; WJ/383
  • √ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
  • √ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383
• Aq. ñolda “dark-haired” ✧ PE17/125
  • √ÑGOL “dark-hued, dark-brown” ✧ PE17/125
• √ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ SA/gûl

Derivatives

• S. Noll “Noldo” ✧ PE17/141

Element in

• Q. Argoldo “Noble Noldo”
• Q. Ingoldo “The Noldo” ✧ MR/230
• Q. Noldolantë “Fall of the Noldor” ✧ S/087
• Q. Noldo-quentasta Ingoldova “Ingoldo’s History of the Noldor” ✧ VT39/16
• Q. Noldóran “King of the Ñoldor”
• Q. Noldorin “of the Noldo; the Noldor language” ✧ LBI/Noldor; PE17/125; UTI/Noldor
• Q. Quenta Noldorinwa “the History of the Noldor” ✧ PM/030; VT39/16

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶ngolodō > Ñoldor	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgoldō] > [ŋoldō] > [ŋoldo] > [noldo]	✧ MR/350
✶ngolodō > noldo	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgoldō] > [ŋoldō] > [ŋoldo] > [noldo]	✧ MR/350
✶ngolodõ > Noldo	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgoldō] > [ŋoldō] > [ŋoldo] > [noldo]	✧ MR/470
Aq. ñolda > ŋoldo > noldo	[ŋgoldo] > [ŋoldo] > [noldo]	✧ PE17/125
✶ñgolodō > ñoldo	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgoldō] > [ŋoldō] > [ŋoldo] > [noldo]	✧ PE17/153
✶ñgolodō > ñoldo	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgoldō] > [ŋoldō] > [ŋoldo] > [noldo]	✧ PE19/076
✶Ñgolodō > Noldo	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgoldō] > [ŋoldō] > [ŋoldo] > [noldo]	✧ PM/360
√ngol- > Noldor	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgoldō] > [ŋoldō] > [ŋoldo] > [noldo]	✧ SA/gûl
✶ñgolodō > Ñoldo	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgoldō] > [ŋoldō] > [ŋoldo] > [noldo]	✧ WJ/364
✶ñgolodō > Ñoldor	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgoldō] > [ŋoldō] > [ŋoldo] > [noldo]	✧ WJ/380
✶ñgolodō > Ñoldo	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgoldō] > [ŋoldō] > [ŋoldo] > [noldo]	✧ WJ/383

Variations

• noldo ✧ LotR/1123; MR/350; PE17/125
• ngoldo ✧ LotR/1123 (ngoldo)
• ñoldo ✧ PE17/141; PE17/141; PE17/153; PE19/076
• ŋoldo ✧ RC/736 (ŋoldo)
• Ñoldo ✧ VT39/16; WJ/364; WJ/383

Quende#

noun. Elf

Elf

quendë

elf

quendë noun "Elf", the little-used analogical sg. of Quendi, q.v. (KWEN(ED), WJ:361)

golodh

noun. "Deep Elf" or "Gnome", one of the Wise Folk

golodh

lore-master

pl1. gœlydh {ð} n. lore-master, sage. Historical form obsolete as specific 'tribal' or general, except as element in certain proper-names. It was used of any sage or lore-master.Q. ñoldo. >> pengolodh

golodh

sage

pl1. gelydh, pl2. golodhrim {ð}_ n. _sage, lore-master. Obsolete as a tribal name. Q. ñoldo. Goloðrim << Goloðir (PE17:126).

golodh

noun. lore-master, sage

Cognates

• Q. Noldo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ MR/470; PE17/141

Derivations

• ✶ñgolodō “lore-master, sage” ✧ MR/470; PE17/139; PE17/140; PE17/141
  • √ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
  • √ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383

Element in

• S. pengolodh “teaching sage, doctor (of lore), teacher of lore, teaching sage, doctor (of lore), *professor” ✧ PE17/139; PE17/140

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶ngolodõ > golodh	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]	✧ MR/470
✶ñgolodō > goloð	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]	✧ PE17/139
✶ñgolodō > gœlyð	[ŋgolodi] > [golodi] > [goloði] > [goluði] > [gœlyði] > [gœlyð] > [gelyð]	✧ PE17/139
✶ñgolodō > goloð	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]	✧ PE17/140
✶ñolodō > goloð	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]	✧ PE17/141

Variations

• goloð ✧ PE17/139; PE17/140; PE17/141; PE17/142

golodh

noun. one of the wise folk, Noldo

Cognates

• Q. Noldo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ PE17/153; PM/360; SA/golodh; SI/Golodhrim; SI/Noldor; WJ/364; WJI/Golodh; MR/350; WJ/383; WJI/Noldor

Derivations

• ✶ñgolodō “lore-master, sage” ✧ MR/350; PE17/153; PM/360; WJ/364; WJ/379; WJ/383
  • √ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
  • √ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383

Element in

• S. Angolodh “The Noldo”
• S. Annon-in-Gelydh “Gate of the Noldor” ✧ S/238; SA/golodh; SI/Golodhrim
• S. Golodhbaeth “*Noldor-speech” ✧ PE17/126
• S. paeth e Ngolodhrim “*speech of the Noldor” ✧ PE17/126; PE17/126

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶ngolodō > golodh	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]	✧ MR/350
✶ñgolodō > goloð	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]	✧ PE17/153
✶Ñgolodō > goloð	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]	✧ PM/360
✶ñgolodō > Golodh	[ŋgolodō] > [ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]	✧ WJ/364
✶ñgolodō > Goelydh	[ŋgolodi] > [golodi] > [goloði] > [goluði] > [gœlyði] > [gœlyð] > [gelyð]	✧ WJ/364

Variations

• golodh ✧ MR/350; SA/golodh
• Goloð ✧ PE17/126
• goloð ✧ PE17/153; PM/360

golodhrim

noun. Deep Elves, Gnomes

gódhel

noun. "Deep Elf" or "Gnome", one of the Wise Folk

ódhel

noun. Deep Elf or Gnome, one of the Wise Folk

gódhellim

noun. "Deep Elves" or "Gnomes", the Wise Folk

noll

noun. Noldo

Changes

• nŏl → noll ✧ PE17/141

Derivations

• Q. Noldo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ PE17/141
  • ✶ñgolodō “lore-master, sage” ✧ MR/350; MR/470; PE17/141; PE17/153; PE19/076; PM/360; WJ/364; WJ/380; WJ/383
  • √ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
  • √ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383
  • Aq. ñolda “dark-haired” ✧ PE17/125
  • √ÑGOL “dark-hued, dark-brown” ✧ PE17/125
  • √ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ SA/gûl

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
Q. ñoldo > nold > noll	[noldo] > [nolðo] > [nolð] > [noll]	✧ PE17/141

Variations

• noll ✧ PE17/141
• golt ✧ PE17/141
• nolt ✧ PE17/141
• nŏl ✧ PE17/141 (nŏl)

egladhrim

noun. "The Forsaken", Elves of the Falathrim

galadhrim

noun. Elves of Lothlórien

ódhellim

noun. Deep Elves or Gnomes, the Wise Folk

eglath

noun. "The Forsaken", Elves of the Falathrim

mornedhel

noun. Dark-Elf

edhel

noun. Elf

edhel

noun. Elf

_ n. _Elf, a general name for all the Elves (since the name Quendi had gone out of use in Sindarin). Probably related to or connected with Q. Elda. >> edhellen

edhel

Elf

pl1. edhil, pl2. edhellim {ð} _n. _Elf. A name used by the Sindar for themselves, characterizing other varieties by an adjective or prefix. >> Aredhel, Thinnedhel

edhel

Elf

{ð} _n. _Elf.

edhel

Elf

d _ n. _Elf. Q. elda.

ellon

noun. elf

iathrim

noun. Elves of Doriath

elleth

noun. elf-maid

glinnel

noun. Elf, one of the Teleri

lachend

noun. Deep Elf (Sindarin name for the Ñoldor)

lachenn

noun. Deep Elf (Sindarin name for the Ñoldor)

elvellon

noun. elf-friend

dúnedhel

noun. Elf of the West, Elf of Beleriand (including Noldor and Sindar)

edhelharn

noun. elf-stone

laegeldrim

noun. the people of the Green Elves

laegel

noun. a Green Elf

ell

noun. elf

n. elf, esp. [?in ?the ?South]. Noldorin form.

Teler

noun. an Elf, one of the Teleri

miniel

noun. an Elf, one of the Vanyar

calben

noun. Elf of the Great Journey (lit. "light person")

calben

noun. all Elves but the Avari

laegrim

noun. the people of the Green Elves

telerrim

noun. the Teleri, a tribe of Elves

tawarwaith

noun. Silvan elves

golodh

noldo

(one of the Noldor) Golodh (i **Ngolodh = i Ñolodh, o N**golodh = o Ñgolodh), pl. Gelydh (in Gelydh = i Ñgelydh), coll. pl. Golodhrim. While Golodh is the actual Sindarin cognate of Quenya Noldo, the Noldor themselves apparently found this form unpleasing (WJ:379) and preferred the word Gódhel (i **Ódhel), pl. Gódhil (i Ngódhil = i Ñódhil), coll. pl. Gódhellim. Also Ódhel, pl. Ódhil, coll. pl. Ódhelllim** (WJ:364, 378-9). Adj.

golodh

noldo

(i Ngolodh = i Ñolodh, o N’golodh = o Ñgolodh), pl. *Gelydh* (*in Gelydh* = i Ñgelydh), coll. pl. Golodhrim. While Golodh is the actual Sindarin cognate of Quenya Noldo, the Noldor themselves apparently found this form unpleasing (WJ:379) and preferred the word Gódhel (i ’Ódhel), pl. *Gódhil*** (i Ngódhil = i Ñódhil), coll. pl. **Gódhellim. Also Ódhel, pl. Ódhil, coll. pl. Ódhelllim (WJ:364, 378-9). Adj.

golodhren

of the noldor, noldorin

*(WJ:318; Christopher Tolkien found the ”last letters illigible”, but the context might suggest Golodhrin as a pl. adj. ”Noldorin (ones)”. Lenited Ngolodhren = Ñolodhren*.

edhel

elf

edhel (pl. edhil). Coll. pl. Edhelrim (or Edhellim) (UT:318). Also †eledh, pl. elidh, coll. pl. eledhrim (Letters:281), also elen, pl. elin, also with coll. pl. eledhrim (elen + rim with the regular change nr > dhr). _(WJ:363, 377-78; _the shorter coll. pl. Eldrim > Elrim_ _may also occur). But since elin also means "stars", other terms for "Elf" may be preferred.

goldo

noun. Noldo

Cognates

• Q. Noldo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ PM/360; WJI/Goldo; WJ/383; WJI/Noldor

Derivations

• ✶ñgolodō “lore-master, sage” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383
  • √ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
  • √ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383

Element in

• T. Goldolambë “Quenya”
• T. Goldórin “Quenya”

Variations

• golodo ✧ PM/360

golda

adjective. noldo

The primitive form of Quenya Noldo (and hence also Nandorin golda) is given in WJ:364, 380 as ñgolodô. This example demonstrates that in Nandorin, like in Quenya, the second of two identical vowels in adjacent syllables is lost in words that had another syllable following the lost vowel. This word alone provides a clear example of the change of primitive final _-ô to -a_. The form golda also suggests that in Nandorin as in Sindarin, the original initial nasalized stops ñg, nd, mb were simplified to g, d, b, though examples for d and b are lacking in our very small corpus. The stems involved are found in LR:377: ÑGOL "wise" and the extended form ÑGOLOD "one of the wise folk". Ñgolodô is thus either formed from ÑGOL by ómataina (suffixed base-vowel), suffixed D and the nominal (often masculine or agental) ending -ô, alternatively simply the longer ending -dô (of similar meaning) suffixed to the ómataina-form of the stem ÑGOL (sc. ñgolo-).

galadrim

noun. Elves of Lothlórien

Note: "The Galadrim were 'Tree-people' (though the formation is Sindarin, + S [rim] = Q rimbë, great number) = true Sindarin galadhrim."

edel

noun. Elda, High-elf

Stated in the Etymologies to be derived from a stem ÉLED (LR:356), defined as "Star-folk"; Tolkien points out that Doriathrin and Danian used a "transposed" form, clearly referring to the sounds L and D changing place. In Etym the development is apparently meant to be eledâ (this primitive form is explicitly given in Letters:281) > edela > edel. Later Tolkien reconstructed the primitive form of Quenya Elda as eldâ (WJ:360); whether this could regularly yield Nandorin edel is doubtful, unless final -ld metathesized to -dl and a vowel developed to break up this final cluster.

In Etym, Tolkien first gave the Nandorin form as elda, then changed it. *Eledâ could not yield elda, since final -â is regularly lost in Nandorin. Since in this word we do not see loss of the second of two identical vowels (compare golda), we must conclude that final -a was lost before this could happen.

Danas

noun. Green-elves, Nandor

In Etym derived from the stem DAN (LR:353), simply defined as an "element found in names of the Green-elves", and tentatively compared to NDAN "back" (since the Nandor "turned back" and did not complete the march to the Sea). Tolkien's later view on the derivation of the name of the Green-elves, as set down in WJ:412, is that the stem dan- and its strengthened form ndan- do indeed have a similar meaning: these forms have to do with "the reversal of an action, so as to undo or nullify its effect", and a primitive form ndandô, "one who goes back on his word or decision", is suggested. However, it seems unlikely that the Nandor would have called themselves by such a name, and indeed Tolkien in WJ:385 states that "this people still called themselves by the old clan-name Lindai [= Quenya Lindar], which had at that time taken the form Lindi in their tongue". It may be, then, that Tolkien had rejected the idea that the Nandor called themselves Danas. - As for the ending -as, it is probably to be compared to the Sindarin class plural ending -ath; indeed a Sindarin ("Noldorin") form Danath evidently closely corresponding to Danas is given in LR:353.

cwenda

noun. elf

A doubtful word according to Tolkien's later conception; in the branch of Eldarin that Nandorin belongs to, primitive KW became P far back in Elvish linguistic history [WJ:375 cf. 407 note 5]. This was not a problem in Tolkien's earlier conception, in which the Danians came from the host of the Noldor, not the Teleri [see PM:76; the idea of the Nandor being of Noldorin origin also occurs in VT47:29]. In his later version of Nandorin, the word cwenda is probably best ignored; simply emending it to *penda would produce a clash with primitive pendâ "sloping" [cf. WJ:375].

In the Etymologies, Tolkien derived cwenda from kwenedê "elf" (stem KWEN(ED) of similar meaning, LR:366; as for the shift of original final -ê to Nandorin -â, compare hrassa "precipice" from khrassê). But later the primitive word that yielded Quenya Quende was reconstructed as kwende (WJ:360).

No certain example shows how original short final -e comes out in Nandorin, so we cannot say whether kwende is also capable of yielding cwenda, ignoring the question of kw failing to become p.

ñgolodō

noun. lore-master, sage

Derivations

• √ÑGOLOD “*one of the wise folk, Gnome, [ᴹ√] one of the wise folk, Gnome”
• √ÑGOL “knowledge, wisdom, lore, knowledge, wisdom, lore; [ᴹ√] wise, be wise” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383

Derivatives

• Q. Ingoldo “The Noldo” ✧ PM/360
  • S. Fingolfin ✧ PE17/118
  • Wes. Ingold ✧ PM/360
• Aq. ñgoldō “Noldo”
• Q. Noldo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ MR/350; MR/470; PE17/141; PE17/153; PE19/076; PM/360; WJ/364; WJ/380; WJ/383
  • S. Noll “Noldo” ✧ PE17/141
• S. Angolodh “The Noldo” ✧ PM/360
• S. Golodh “one of the wise folk, Noldo” ✧ MR/350; PE17/153; PM/360; WJ/364; WJ/379; WJ/383
• S. golodh “lore-master, sage” ✧ MR/470; PE17/139; PE17/140; PE17/141
• T. Goldo “Noldo” ✧ PM/360; WJ/383

Element in

• Q. Ingoldo “The Noldo” ✧ PE19/076
• Q. Quendingoldo “*Loremaster of the Elves”

Variations

• ngolodō ✧ MR/350
• ngolodõ ✧ MR/470
• ngolođ-ō ✧ PE17/139
• ñolodō ✧ PE17/141
• Ñgolodō ✧ PM/360

golodh

noun. "Deep Elf" or "Gnome", one of the Wise Folk

golodh

noun. one of the wise folk, Gnome

Cognates

• ᴹQ. Noldo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ Ety/ÑGOLOD; LBI/Golodh; SMI/Golodh

Derivations

• On. ngolodo “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ Ety/ÑGOLOD
  • ᴹ√ÑGOLOD “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ Ety/ÑGOLOD
• ᴹ√ÑGOLOD “one of the wise folk, Gnome” ✧ Ety/ÑGOLOD

Element in

• N. Geleidhien “Land of the Gnomes” ✧ Ety/ÑGOLOD
• N. Golovir “Silmaril, *(lit.) Noldo-jewel” ✧ Ety/ÑGOLOD
• N. Mîr in Geleidh “*Jewel of the Gnomes” ✧ Ety/ÑGOLOD
• N. Pennas inGeleidh “History of the Gnomes” ✧ LR/201
• N. Pennas-na-Ngoelaidh “History of the Noldoli” ✧ SM/077

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
On. ngolodo > golodh	[ŋgolodo] > [golodo] > [goloðo] > [goloð]	✧ Ety/ÑGOLOD
ᴹ√ÑGÓLOD > goeloeidh > geleidh	[ŋgolodi] > [golodi] > [goloði] > [gœlœði] > [gœlœið] > [geleið]	✧ Ety/ÑGOLOD

Variations

• golodh ✧ Ety/ÑGOLOD; PE22/034

golodhrim

noun. Deep Elves, Gnomes

edhel

noun. Elf