_topon. _A blend of Noldorin-Quenya and Sindarin. Tolkien notes that "it is obviously neither Sindarin nor Noldorin" (PE17:29).
Sindarin
Gondolin
noun. Gondolin
Gondolin
A blend of Noldorin-Quenya and Sindarin
gondolin
place name. Hidden Rock, (originally) Singing Stone
The hidden city of the Noldor in Beleriand, translated “Hidden Rock”, an adaptation of its Quenya name Ondolindë “Rock of the Music of Water” (S/125). Tolkien stated that the name Gondolin was properly “neither Sindarin or Noldorin [Quenya]” (PE17/29), but the Sindarized name was reinterpretated as a combination of gond “stone” and dolen “hidden” (WJ/201).
Conceptual Development: The name G. Gondolin appeared in the earliest Lost Tales, but at this stage it was translated “Stone of Song” (LT2/158). This was the same meaning as its early Qenya name Ondolinda, with the second element being G. dólin “song” (GL/29, 41; LT1A/Gondolin). In The Etymologies from the 1930s, Tolkien revised the meaning of N. Gondolin to “heart of hidden rock” (Ety/DUL), setting the stage for the later derivation described above.
Cognates
- Q. Ondolindë “Rock of the Music of Water, (lit.) Singing Stone” ✧ PE17/133; PM/374; PMI/Gondolin; SA/gond; SI/Gondolin; WJI/Gondolin; S/125; WJI/Ondolindë
Derivations
- Q. Ondolindë “Rock of the Music of Water, (lit.) Singing Stone” ✧ PE17/029; PE17/133; WJ/201
- ✶Gondō̆-lindē ✧ PE17/133
Element in
- S. Gondolindrim “People of Gondolin” ✧ SI/Gondolin; UTI/Gondolin
- S. Narn e·Dant Gondolin ar Orthad en·Êl “*Tale of the Fall of Gondolin and the Raising of the Star” ✧ MR/373
Elements
Word Gloss gond “stone, rock, stone, rock, [N.] stone (as a material), [G.] great stone” dolen “hidden, hidden, [N.] secret” Variations
- Gondolin(d) ✧ PM/374
gond
noun. great stone, rock
gond
stone
_n. _stone, rock. Archaic S. gond > gonn. Q. ondo. >> Gondor
gondren
adjective. (made) of stone
sarn
noun. small stone
Sern in UT/463 is a misprint, see VT/42:11
sarn
noun. stone (as a material)
Sern in UT/463 is a misprint, see VT/42:11
Gondolin
Gondolin
Gondolind is perhaps a Mithrimin name and means 'stone of music'. In proper Sindarin it was named Gonnólen which means "hidden rock". In Quenya it was named Ondolinde. In Eriol's Old English translations, Gondolin is referred as Stangaldor(burg) "stone-enchantment-(city)", Folgenburg "hidden city" Galdorfaesten "enchantment-fortress".
gondolindrim
gondolin, people of
. Adj. ”of or related to Gondolin”: Gondolindren (pl. Gondolindrin; lenited ’Ondolindren)
gond
stone
(i ’ond, construct gon) (great stone or rock), pl. gynd (i ngynd = i ñynd), coll. pl. gonnath (Letters:410).
gondren
made of stone, stony
(stony), lenited ’ondren, pl. gendrin. Archaic pl. göndrin (TI:270).
gôn
stone
(i ’ôn, construct gon); pl. gŷn, coll. pl. #gonath as in Argonath.
gonhir
master of stone
(i ’Onhir), no distinct pl. form except with article (i Ngonhir = i Ñonhir), maybe primarily used as a coll. pl. Gonhirrim (WJ:205, there spelt ”Gonnhirrim”)
gondrath
street of stone
(i ’ondrath) (causeway, raised stone highway), pl. gendraith (i ngendraith = i ñendraith). Archaic pl. göndreith. (WJ:340)
sarn
stone
1) (small stone, or stone as material) sarn (i harn, o sarn), pl. sern (i sern); also used as adj. ”stony, made of stone”. 2) gôn (i **ôn, construct gon); pl. gŷn, coll. pl. #**gonath as in Argonath. 3) (larger stone) gond (i **ond, construct gon) (great stone or rock), pl. gynd (i ngynd = i ñynd), coll. pl. gonnath** (Letters:410).
sarn
stone
(i harn, o sarn), pl. sern (i sern); also used as adj. ”stony, made of stone”.
sarn
made of stone, stony
(lenited harn; pl. sern); also used as noun ”small stone, pebble, stone [as material]”; as adj. also = ”stony”.
hidden rock; gond (“great stone, rock”) + dollen (p.p. of doltha- “conceal”); [Etym. DUL-] - “heart of hidden rock”; gond (“great stone, rock”) + dol (from dollen p.p. of Doltha “conceal”) + ind (“inner thought, heart”); S name for Q Ondolindë (“the Rock of the Music of Water”).