mairë

work of high and beautiful art

mairë noun "work of high and beautiful art" (or the process of producing a work) (PE17:163)

mairë

noun. art, work of high and beautiful art, process of producing an art work

A word in Quenya Notes (QN) from 1957 that Tolkien described as meaning “a work (or the process of producing a work) of high and beautiful art” based on the root √MAY “make (in artistic sense)” (PE17/163). It thus has most of the same meanings as English “art”.

mairëa

adjective. beautiful (of things made by art), *artistic

An word meaning “beautiful (of things made by art)” in Quenya Notes (QN) from 1957, an adjective form of mairë “work of art” (PE17/163). It was followed by ia indicating a variant form [mair]ia.

mairëa

beautiful

mairëa adj. "beautiful" (of things made by art) (PE17:163). An alternative (and peculiar) form "mairia" is also implied in the source.

mairen

feminine name. Mairen

Third child of Tar-Amandil, known only from a genealogy chart on UT/210. Her name might be a feminized form of maira “admirable”.

Mairen

well

Mairen fem. name(UT:210), initial element perhaps related or identical to mai "well". The second element is obscure; the root REN "recall, have in mind" (PM:372) could be related; if so the name may imply "well remembered", "(of) good memory" or something similar. It may also connect with the adj. maira, q.v. and compare the masc. name Mairon (PE18:163).

mai

well

mai (1) adv. "well" (VT47:6), apparently also used as prefix (PE17:17:162, 163, 172)

mai

adverb. well, well; [ᴱQ.] too much

mairia

adjective. beautiful (of things made by art)

Mairen

Mairen

Mairen's name is not translated, but probably means "the Good". Cf. Sauron's original name, Mairon, which means "admirable" or "excellent."

calwa

beautiful

calwa ("k") adj. "beautiful" (LT1:254)

ehtelu-

verb. well, bubble out

mandë

well

mandë (2) adv. "well" (VT49:26; this is "Qenya"). Rather mai in Tolkiens later Quenya.

mírya

beautiful

mírya adj. "beautiful" (of work of art only) (PE17:165)

tampo

well

tampo noun "well" (QL:93)

vanima

beautiful, fair

vanima adj. "beautiful, fair" (BAN, VT39:14) (glossed "proper, right, fair" in early "Qenya", LT1:272, though a later source says the word is used "only of living things, especially Elves and Men", PE17:150); nominal pl. vanimar "beautiful ones", partitive pl. genitive vanimálion, translated "of beautiful children", but literally meaning *"of [some] beautiful ones") (LotR3:VI ch. 6, translated in Letters:308). Arwen vanimalda "Beautiful Arwen", literally "Arwen your beauty" (see -lda for reference; changed to Arwen vanimelda in the second edition of LotR; see vanimelda).

vanima

adjective. beautiful

tampo

noun. well