nalta

radiance, glittering reflection

nalta ("ñ")noun "radiance, glittering reflection" (from jewels, glass or polished metals, or water) (PM:347)

nalta

noun. radiance, glittering reflection

alta

radiance

alta (2) noun "radiance" (VT42:32, PE17:50). Cf. variant ñalta.

alta

noun. radiance

naltalma

noun. heliograph

A word for a “heliograph” appearing in notes from around 1968, an elaboration of Q. nalta “glittering reflection” (NM/353). Tolkien described it as “an Eldarin device for signalling from afar, like a heliograph, though it is said to have been also usable in a clear moon. Its form and the manner of manipulating it are not recorded, but it must have contained a bright surface.”

naltariel

feminine name. Galadriel

What the Quenya name of Altáriel (S. Galadriel) would have been if it had been coined in Quenya instead of adapted from Telerin (PM/347). This name is a compound of nalta “radiance, glittering reflection” and riel(lë) “garlanded maiden”. See S. Galadriel and ✶Ñ(g)alatā-rigelle for further discussion.

alcar

noun. radiance

radiance, splendour

altáriel

feminine name. Galadriel

The Quenya name of Galadriel, an adaptation of the Telerin name Alatáriel (UT/266, PM/347). See the entry on Galadriel for further discussion of this name’s history, and ✶Ñ(g)alatā-rigelle for a discussion of the conceptual development of its etymology.

fairë

radiance

fairë (3) noun "radiance" (PHAY)