lórinand

place name. Valley of Gold(en Light)

Cognates

• Q. Laurenandë “Valley of Gold” ✧ UT/252; UTI/Lórien²

Derivations

• ✶Laware-nde ✧ NM/351
• Nan. Lindórinand “Vale of the Land of Singers” ✧ UT/253; UTI/Lórien²

Derivatives

• S. Lórien “*Golden Lands” ✧ NM/351; UT/253; UTI/Lórien²

Variations

• Lōrinand ✧ NM/347
• Lawarind ✧ NM/351
• Lóriand ✧ PE17/048

lórinand

place name. Valley of Gold

Altered from Lindórinand, q.v. (UT:252-253). This word would seem to point to lóri- (the independent form may differ somewhat) as the Nandorin word for "gold, golden light", transparently a derivative of the stem LÁWAR (LR:368) that covers precisely this meaning; a primitive form laurê is given in the Etymologies. This word alone testifies a Nandorin shift au > ó. (However, the final vowel of laurê would be expected to come out as -a in Nandorin; cf. hrassa from khrassê; it may be that lóri- rather represents a colour-adjective lauri; if so the final -i may be preserved before endings and in compounds only, the independent form being lór.) >> Lórien