Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Early Quenya

tavar

noun. dale-sprite, fay of the woods; forest

Cognates

  • G. tavor “wood fay” ✧ LT1A/Tavari

Derivations

  • ᴱ√TAVA “beam” ✧ LT1A/Tavari; QL/090

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴱ√TAVA > tavar[taβarn] > [taβar] > [tavar]✧ QL/090
Early Quenya [LT1A/Tavari; LT1I/Tavari; PE14/010; PE16/080; PE16/139; QL/090] Group: Eldamo. Published by

aldare

noun. wood

A word glossed “wood” in the margins of Tolkien’s notes on The Creatures of the Earth from the 1910s, clearly an elaboration ᴱQ. alda “tree” as suggested by Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson (PE14/7).

Derivations

  • ᴱ√ALA “spread‽”

Elements

WordGloss
alda“tree, branch”
-re“noun suffix”
Early Quenya [PE14/007] Group: Eldamo. Published by