leithian

noun. release from bondage, release from bondage, [N.] release, freeing

A noun most notably used as the name of the “Lay of Leithian” in The Silmarillion, translated “Release from Bondage” (S/162). It had this translation back in its earliest appearance in the 1920s (LB/120). The Etymologies of the 1930s has N. Lheithian “Release, Freeing” based on the verb N. lheithia- “to release, set free” under the root ᴹ√LEK “loose, let loose, release” (Ety/LEK). Here the initial lh is the result of the Noldorin unvoicing of initial l, a sound change Tolkien abandoned for Sindarin of the 1950s and 60s, and indeed this entry also had an “EN” [Exhilic Noldorin] form leithian “release”. A slip accompanying The Etymologies indicated the root was instead Leth-, but √LEK was the root form given in Tolkien’s later writing (VT41/6).

leithian

noun. release, freeing, release from bondage

leithian

freeing

leithian (release), pl. leithiain

leithian

release

(freeing), pl. leithiain

leithian

freeing

(release), pl. leithiain

adleitha

release

(verb, = "to free") adleitha- (i adleitha, in adleithar); also adleg- (i adleg, in edlegir), pa.t. adlenc, pp. adlengen, pl. edlengin). RELEASE (noun) 1) adleithian, pl. adleithiain, 2) leithian (freeing), pl. leithiain

adleitha

release

(i adleitha, in adleithar); also adleg- (i adleg, in edlegir), pa.t. adlenc, pp. adlengen, pl. edlengin).

adleithian

release

pl. adleithiain