ivrin

place name. Ivrin

Location with a lake and falls (S/129, 139), the meaning of this name is unclear.

Conceptual Development: The name ᴱN. Ivrin first appeared in the Lays of Beleriand from the 1920s (LB/60), and N. Ivrin also appeared in Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s (SM/29, LR/260), but there are no clear explanations of its name, or even of the location itself other than its associated lake and falls. In the Gnomish Lexicon from the 1910s, there is an adjective G. ivrin “fertile” (GL/52), but it seems unlikely that it is related. Didier Willis suggested it might mean “✱of crystal, crystalline” based on the description of the lake (HSD/ivrin).

ivriniel

proper name. Ivriniel

Eldest daughter of Adrahil, known only from a genealogy chart of the princes of Dol Amroth (SM/221). Her name is a combination of Ivrin and the feminine suffix -iel.

eithel ivrin

place name. Ivrin’s Well

Source of the river Narog (S/209) translated “Ivrin’s Well” (WJ/139), a combination of eithel “spring, well” and the name Ivrin (SA/eithel).

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this name first appeared as N. Ivrineithil with the same elements and meaning (SM/313, LR/139).

ivrin

crystalline

no distinct pl. form.

iavren

adjective. fertile

silef

noun. crystal

_n. _crystal (white). >> silivren

ivor

crystal

analogical pl. ivyr;