Lindon

lindon

Lindon, Lindónë noun "Lindon", place-name (WJ:385)

lindónë

place name. Lindon

The Quenya name for S. Lindon, a “Quenyarization” of that name (WJ/385).

Cognates

• S. Lindon “Land of Music” ✧ WJ/385

Derivations

• S. Lindon “Land of Music” ✧ WJ/385
  • ✶Lindānā “Lindon” ✧ WJ/385

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
S. Lindon > Lindóne	[lindōne]	✧ WJ/385

Variations

• Lindóne ✧ WJ/385

lindon

place name. Land of Music

Land of the Nandor in eastern Beleriand, translated “Land of Music” (S/123), based on lind “song”. This name was originally Nandorin, adopted into Sindarin (WJ/385), because normally [[s|[nd] became [nn]]] in Sindarin.

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, the name Ilk. Lindon was translated “Region of Music” and provided a new explanation for the name of the mountain range Eredlindon (LR/267). In The Etymologies, it was translated “Musical Land” and designated Ilkorin, appearing beside a variant Lhinnon which is probably the Noldorin form of the name (Ety/LIN²).

Cognates

• Q. Lindónë “Lindon” ✧ WJ/385

Derivations

• ✶Lindānā “Lindon” ✧ WJ/385

Derivatives

• Q. Lindónë “Lindon” ✧ WJ/385

Element in

• S. Dor Lindon ✧ WJI/Dor Lindon
• S. Ered Lindon “Mountains of Lindon” ✧ SA/lin²; WJ/385
• S. Forlindon “Lindon north of the Gulf of Lune”
• S. Harlindon “Lindon south of the Gulf of Lune”

Elements

Word	Gloss
lind	“song, chant, singing; singer, song, chant, singing, [N.] air, tune; [N. and S.] singer”

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶Lindānā > Lindon	[lindānā] > [lindāna] > [lindǭna] > [lindauna] > [lindaun] > [lindon] > [linnon]	✧ WJ/385

lindon

place name. Lindon

Lindon

place name. Lindon

Region in eastern Beleriand where the Green-elves settled, formerly called Ossiriand (WJ:385). The idea that Lindon is a Nandorin word is not found in the Etymologies; here the word is said to be Ilkorin instead, derived from Lindân-d (LR:369 s.v. LIN2) and defined as "musical land" ("because of water and birds"). However, the name Lindon in Tolkien's later conception represents primitive Lindânâ (WJ:385), which is clearly Lindâ "Linda, Elf of the Third Clan" + the well-attested adjectival ending -nâ. Lindânâ therefore means simply "(Land) of the Lindar", "Lindarin (Land)".

Interestingly, this Nandorin word from a source much later than the Etymologies confirms the loss of original final -â seen in many words listed in Etym. Lindon from Lindânâ is also our sole example of how medial â comes out in Nandorin; it seems to become o. (Cf. Doriathrin, in which language primitive medial â becomes ó.)

lindānā

place name. Lindon

Derivatives

• S. Lindon “Land of Music” ✧ WJ/385
  • Q. Lindónë “Lindon” ✧ WJ/385