luin

jhJ5 adjective. blue

Examples: Ered luin, Helluin, Luinil, Mindolluin

luin

adjective. blue

luin

adjective. blue

luin

blue

adj. blue. . This gloss was rejected.

sîr luin

place name. Sîr Luin

A variant name for the river Lhûn which Tolkien abandoned after he remembered that its other name appeared on the maps of The Lord of the Rings (VT48/23, 28). It is a combination of sîr “river” and luin “blue”.

ered luin

place name. Blue Mountains

The “Blue Mountains” in western Beleriand and eastern Eriador (S/54, 91), also named Ered Lindon (S/123). This name is a combination of the plural of orod “mountain” and the adjective luin “blue”, which has the same singular and plural forms.

Conceptual Development: In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, this name appeared as N. Eredluin “Blue Mountains” (SM/121, LR/267), but at this stage its second element was the lenited plural of N. lhûn, as is clear from its variant name N. Lhúnorodrim (Ety/LUG²).

ithryn luin

proper name. Blue Wizards

Sindarin title of the Blue Wizards (UT/390), a combination of the plural of ithron “wizard” and the adjective luin “blue”, whose singular and plural forms are the same.

Ered Luin

noun. blue mountains

ered (pl. of orod “mountain”), luin (pl. of lûn, lhûn “blue”)

Ithryn Luin

noun. the blue wizards, istari

ithryn (pl. of ithron “wizard”), luin (pl. of lûn “blue”)

Ered Luin

'Blue Mountains'

topon. 'Blue Mountains'. . This gloss was rejected.

luin

blue

luin (no distinct pl. form, as demonstrated by the name Ered Luin ”Blue Mountains”) (VT48:24)

elu

adjective. (pale) blue

lô

blue

adj. blue. . This gloss was rejected.

nimp

adjective. pale

adj. pale, pallid. nimp << nim (PE17:168). >> niphred

bannen

gone

#bannen (pl. bennin). Isolated from govannen ”met”, based on the assumption that this past participle includes a form of the verb #bad- ”go”.

bannen

adjective. gone

A neologism for “gone” derived from ᴹ√BAT proposed by David Salo as part of his theory for the derivation of govannen “met” (GS/241, 260). While I think this theory is correct for the 1940s, I think the relevant forms were abandoned by the late 1950s, and I would recommend attested gwanwen instead for “departed, ✱gone”.

bannen

gone

(pl. bennin). Isolated from govannen ”met”, based on the assumption that this past participle includes a form of the verb #bad- ”go”.

elu

pale blue

(analogical pl. ely). Archaic elw (pl. ilw?).

gael

pale

(glittering), lenited ’ael; no distinct pl. form.

gwind

pale blue

(lenited ’wind; no distinct pl. form).

ia

ago

ia, io

ia

ago

io

maidh

pale

1) maidh (lenited vaidh; no distinct pl. form) (fallow, fawn), 2) nimp (nim-) (white); no distinct pl. form, 3) thind (grey); no distinct pl. form; 4) gael (glittering), lenited ael; no distinct pl. form. 5) *malu (lenited valu; analogical pl. mely; lenited valu) (fallow). Cited in archaic form malw (LR:386 s.v. SMAL).

maidh

pale

(lenited vaidh; no distinct pl. form) (fallow, fawn)

malu

pale

(lenited valu; analogical pl. mely; lenited valu) (fallow). Cited in archaic form malw (LR:386 s.v. SMAL).

mith

pale grey

(lenited vith; no distinct pl. form). David Salo would read mîth with a long vowel. Note: a homophone means ”white fog, wet mist”.

nimp

pale

(nim-) (white); no distinct pl. form

thind

pale

(grey); no distinct pl. form