Ingoldo

ingoldo's

Ingoldo masc. name; possessive Ingoldova "Ingoldo's" (VT39:16)

Ingoldo

noun. the Gnome

the Gnome

ingoldo

masculine name. The Noldo

The mother-name of Finarfin (PM/360), and also the mother name of his son Finrod (PM/346). It is an archaic combination of the definite article i “the” and ✶Ñgoldō > Noldo, with the ñg- preserved because it was not at the beginning of the word (PE19/76). It would have been Sindarized as S. Angolodh, but this name was not used because Finarfin did not go to Middle-earth with his brothers (PM/360). A similar name was common in Númenor and Gondor, where it was reduced to Ingold (PM/360, LotR/749).

Conceptual Development: In earlier writing, the mother-name of Finarfin was Ingalaurë, while Ingoldo was the mother-name of Fingolfin (MR/230, PE17/118). At this stage, Tolkien said that it was a combination of the names of the peoples of Fingolfin’s mother and father, the Ingar and Noldor (MR/230). As the mother-mame of Fingolfin, Tolkien also considered having this name develop into Fingoldo (PE17/39) or Ingoldofinwe (PE17/118, MR/230) to better match his Sindarin name.

Cognates

• S. Fingolfin ✧ PE17/118
• S. Angolodh “The Noldo” ✧ PM/360

Derivations

• ✶ñgolodō “lore-master, sage” ✧ PM/360
  • √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

• S. Fingolfin ✧ PE17/118
• Wes. Ingold ✧ PM/360

Element in

• Q. Ingoldo “The Noldo” ✧ MR/230
• Q. Noldo-quentasta Ingoldova “Ingoldo’s History of the Noldor” ✧ VT39/16

Elements

Word	Gloss
i	“the”
Noldo	“one of the wise folk, Gnome”

Variations

• Ingoldo-finwë ✧ MR/230
• Fingoldo ✧ PE17/039
• Vinya Finwe ✧ PE17/118
• Ingoldofinwe ✧ PE17/118
• iñgoldo ✧ PE19/076 (Aq. iñgoldo)