Early Quenya
kaukaeldar
collective name. False-fairies
Elements
Word Gloss kauka “crooked, bent, bowed, humped” Elda “Elf; beach-fay”
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False Elves created by Morgoth in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/239), a combination of kauka “crooked” and the plural of Elda “Elf”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Kaukaeldar).