limhír

place name. Clear/Sparkling River

A name Tolkien considered as a replacement for the river Celon (WJ/320), appearing with both short i and long î in the final syllable and translated “clear/sparkling river” (WJ/337). He indicated it was a repetition of a name appearing in The Lord of the Rings, which Christopher Tolkien suggested might be a reference to the river Limlight. Indeed, Tolkien indicated in notes from the late 1960s that Límhir (earlier †Limphîr) was the Sindarin name for “Limlight”, and the English name was a partial adaptation rather than a full translation. Its elements were limp “clear, sparkling; (bright/clear/gleaming) liquid” the soft mutation of sîr “river” (NM/284). Elsewhere Tolkien gave the other Sindarin forms for “Limlight”, such as S. Limlint.