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Pinnath Gelin

noun. green ridges

pinnath (collective plural of ? [His.]), celin (pl. of calen- “green”)

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Pinnath Gelin

'Green Slopes'

topon. 'Green Slopes', 'Green Crest/ridges'. Dialectal of late Gondorian Sindarin for the pl. pennath blended with other plural forms pinn, pind. >> pind, pinn

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:24:97] -. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

Pinnath Gelin

'Green-crests'

topon. 'Green-crests'. >> pind, pinn

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:173] < KWIN crest, salient or top edge & ?. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

pinnath gelin

place name. Green Ridges

A fiefdom in Gondor, glossed “Green Hills” in The Lord of the Rings (LotR/771) and elsewhere translated “Green Ridges”, “Green Downs” (RC/525), “Green Slopes” or “Green Crests/Ridges” (PE17/24). This name appears to be a combination of the class-plural of pind “crest, ridge” and the lenited plural form of calen “green”.

Conceptual Development: When it first appeared in Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name was already N. Pinnath Gelin (WR/280).

Elements

WordGloss
pind“crest, ridge”
calen“green; fresh, vigorous; †bright, green; †bright, [N.] bright-coloured; [S.] fresh, vigorous”
Sindarin [LotR/0771; LotRI/Pinnath Gelin; PE17/024; PE17/097; PE17/173; RC/525; SA/calen; SDI1/Pinnath Gelin; TII/Pinnath Gelin] Group: Eldamo. Published by

calen

adjective. green

Sindarin [Ety/362, S/429, Letters/282, RC/349, VT/42:19] Etym. "bright-coloured". Group: SINDICT. Published by

calen

green

(galen) _ adj. _green (fresh, vigorous). galen after a sg. noun. Q. kălina (lit. illumined) sunny, light.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:77:153] < GAL. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

laeb

adjective. green

_ adj. _green. A theoretical equivalent to Q. laiqua but that did not exist in Sindarin.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:153] < _laiqua_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

laeg

green

_ adj. _green. >> Legolas

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:84] < _laikā_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

laeg

adjective. green

_ adj. _green (of leaves, herbage). Q. laika.

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:159] < LAY. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

Pinnath Gelin

Pinnath Gelin

Usually translated as Green Hills, and sometimes as Green Downs, the meaning of the name Pinnath Gelin would be actually closer to Green Ridges, Green Slopes or Green Crests. The first word was the dialectical Sindarin or Gondor Sindarin pinnath. The second was the plural of the word calen, "green".

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calen

green

1) (etymologically "bright") calen (lenited galen), pl. celin (attested in lenited form in the name Pinnath **Gelin, "Green Ridges"). 2) laeg (fresh), no distinct pl. form. (Note: a homophone means ”keen, sharp, acute”.) In the Woodland dialect lêg, whence leg- in the name Legolas** ”Greenleaf” (Lettters:282, 386).

calen

green

(lenited galen), pl. celin (attested in lenited form in the name Pinnath Gelin, "Green Ridges").

laeg

green

(fresh), no distinct pl. form. (Note: a homophone means ”keen, sharp, acute”.) In the Woodland dialect lêg, whence leg- in the name Legolas ”Greenleaf” (Lettters:282, 386). 

lasgalen

leaf-green

(pl. lesgelin).