Term for the Elves who had lived in Kôr in the earliest Lost Tales (LT1/143, LT2/276), a compound of that city name with the plural of Elda “Elf”. This term also appeared in the earliest Silmarillion drafts from the late 1920s (SM/21), but not in later versions of the narratives.
Early Quenya
kor
noun. war
kôr
place name. Kôr
kor(o)mas
place name. Resting of the Exiles of Kôr
koreldar
collective name. Elves of Kôr
korima
adjective. round
werin(a)
adjective. round
A word in Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s appearing as ᴱQ. ’werin(a) “round” under the early root ᴱ√GWERE (QL/103).
ohta
noun. war
In the earliest Lost Tales, a town of Tol Eressea housing the exiles of the city of Kôr (LT1/16), a combination of that name with the suffix -mas “-town”, as suggested by Christopher Tolkien (LT1A/Eldamar, Koromas).